The Webb Wagg Family in Australia

Mary Ann Wagg was the third child of William and Sarah Wagg.  Mary was certainly named after her maternal grandmother, Mary Ann Turner (nee Hand)  and, if our current research is accurate, her paternal grandmother, Mary Ann (Ann) Wagg (nee Clark), as well! On 22 August 1858, Mary Ann was born at "Sugar Works, North Shore, District of St Leonards".  Mary Ann's birth was registered by Sarah of "Sugar Works" and shows the father as William Wagg, labourer, aged 29 from Yarmouth England and the mother as Sarah Turner, aged 24 from Sydney.   Plan of the Sugar Works Estate (part of the Crows Nest Estate) situated at the North Shore near Sydney - The property of R. M. Robey Esq. Robey's Sugar Works first opened in 1857 on a land situated on the current Wollstonecraft Bay.  It was taken over by the Colonial Sugar Refinery Co.  In the late 1860s, the Australian Mineral Oil Co. established a kerosene works on the site to treat kerosene shale and handle imp...