The Webb Wagg Family in Australia

Albert Hayden Webb Wagg was the ninth child of William (Bill) and Sarah Wagg.  He was know as Hayden and is my maternal great-grandfather. It's taken me a long while to get to Bill and Sarah's ninth child.  It's over two years since I wrote about Chris Webb , their seventh child.  Alice was Bill and Sarah's eight child.  She was born on 30 March 1869 and died 3 months later on 30 June 1869.  A year later, on 1 July 1870, along came Hayden.  He was born at the family's home in Blues Point.  Sarah's sister Jane Trickett (nee Turner) was present at the birth. Only three of Bill and Sarah's children were still living when Hayden was born - Sarah Jane (11 days short of the 14th birthday), Charlie (8 years and 7 days) and Chris (3 years and 9 months).  William George died in 1855 aged 18 months.  Mary Ann died in 1861 one day short of her third birthday.  Adelaide died in 1861 at 8 months.  William John in 1868 at 3 years and 9 months...

For many of the Webb Wagg "cousins", every 19 March brings special thoughts back to us of our cherished "Ma Webb" for she was born on St Joseph's Day in 1878 - 140 years ago today.  Ma was named Josephine, of course, because she came from a family with a strong Irish background.  I'm sure she would have been called Patricia of she was born two days earlier! To recap an earlier blog.... We were so fortunate to have Ma with us until her death on Anzac Day 1974, aged 96.  Ma was very proud of her Irish Catholic heritage but both of her parents were born in Australia.   John Clancy, her father, was born on 24 January 1845 at Camden - the fifth of the ten children of John Clancy (1811 to 1858) and Mary Casey (1814 to 1905).  John and Mary married on 29 December 1836 in County Cork, Ireland and arrived in Australia on 16 October 1838. John Clancy Catherine Mary Teresa (Kate) Flaven, her mother, was born on 28 September 1846 at Princes Street, The ...

Many of our men fought in World War 1 and World War 11.  Mercifully, it seems that none of "our boys" were lost but I know that, like me, you undoubtedly have relatives in the other branches of your family that were taken while on service or died after their return from injuries they sustained.  Then, there is the ongoing trauma for those that were involved in these or other conflicts.   Today, I'll be remembering all of them and reflecting on the threats we currently face.   Lest we forget! I've always thought about my Webb Wagg relatives on Anzac Day...... First, when I was young it was Uncle Bob's birthday.  Well, he was my great uncle but always a big presence in my life.  Bob was born Robert Webb-Wagg on 25 April 1907 - the fourth child of Hayden Webb Wagg and Josephine Clancy.  Bob married May Lillian Jessie Rodger in 1938.  May was literally "the girl across the road".  They'd known each other since the Webb Waggs mov...

Hayden and Josephine's first child, Hayden Albert Webb-Wagg "Uncle Hayden", was born on 22 March 1896 - just 3 days after Ma's eighteenth birthday on 19 March and four days before Ma and Pa's first wedding anniversary.  Hayden died on 31 Mar 1973...just turned 77.  Hayden is in the centre of this photo with Ethel and Harry.  On the pier looking at his grandfather, father and uncles on Australia, Hayden is the little boy on the left.  Do you think that he is wearing the same outfit? Ethel, Hayden and Harry Webb Wagg Ethel, the second child, was born on 23 March 1901 and Harry followed on 11 December 1902. Front row left to right - Beryl, Ethel and Jack Back row - Ma and Pa Webb Beryl Woodlands (nee Lutge) was born on 27 March 1928. Here she is with Ma and Pa (her grandparents), Ethel (her mum) and Jack (her brother). The photo was taken at Hayden and Josephine's home at 14 Bray Street Mosman.   Here's a recent photo of...