The Webb Wagg Family in Australia

Most days I review the "significant events" that have happened around that date on my ever growing family history data base!  Today was the day to take a closer look at Oliver William Trickett.... Oliver will be know to some of our cousins as he married Shirley Prince in 1955 in North Sydney.  Shirley was the daughter of Violet Manning Prince (nee Webb),  grand-daughter of Chris Webb and great-granddaughter of William Webb Wagg and his wife Sarah Turner.   Here's a pedigree chart for Shirley from my tree on ancestry.com.au. Sarah Webb (nee Turner's) sister, Jane, married John Trickett.  We know that the Webb Wagg and Trickett families were close.  Their children were baptised on the same day at St Thomas's North Sydney many times, Webb Waggs are informants on Trickett death registrations and vice versa and, as in this case, witnesses at marriages.  Here's the parish register from Christ Church Lavender Bay.  It records the wedding ...

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 ...

A  Facebook comment from one of the "Webb Wagg cousins" about the involvement of Chris Webb in the family of his youngest sister, Minnie, underlies my view that all the children of Bill and Sarah Wagg were very close and supportive. We just have to look at the three generation in this photo! Then we have the photo another "Webb Wagg cousins" shared with us of the Webb Wagg family gathering in the late 1910s. I've spent a long time looking at this photo with a magnifying glass since Therese lent it to me. You can clearly see Sarah Wag g in the front row. In the middle of the second row looking away from the camera is Chris and Nellie Webb with Hayden and Josephine Webb Wagg to their right. I'm sure that there are many Tricketts in the photos. You'll recall that Sarah's sister Jane Turner, married John Trickett. Here's the 1906 marriage certificate of Edward George Thickett (Jane and John's oldest son) to Bina (Sabina) McManus at...

Our last post was on 21 September 2017, the 99th anniversary of the death of Sarah Wagg (nee Turner) - the matriarch of our Webb Wagg family.  It was a hasty post as I was heading off to a Family History Conference in Orange with an early afternoon tea in Bathurst at the home of "our Webb Wagg cousin", Therese. As I made my way out of Sydney, the serendipity of meeting Therese again after 50 plus years on the anniversary of Sarah's death struck me....  It's always fun to catch up with family when you share an interest...even more fun when family treasures are presented as well as delicious scones! Here's what was waiting for me...... All that's written on the back is "Webb Wagg family gathering".  Therese and I poured over the photo as I'm sure you will.   Have you ever seen a copy of this photo before?   Where and when was it taken? Who are all those people?   Is there more than one camera as some are facing ahead, some ar...

Adelaide Wagg was the fourth child of William and Sarah Wagg.  There's a possibility that Adelaide was named after one of Bill's sisters who was still living in Norfolk, England...more research required! On 07 October 1860, Adelaide was born at Greenwich.  Adelaide's birth was registered by Sarah.  This is the first evidence that Sarah was not able to write as her signature is marked as "X".  The registration shows the father as William Wagg, ballast man from Yarmouth, and the mother as Sarah Turner, aged 28 from Sydney.  Interestingly, the registration shows "Mrs Trickett" was present at the birth - this is probably Jane Trickett (nee Turner), Sarah's sister. William and Sarah and their three girls, Sarah Jane, Mary Ann and  Adelaide, appear to have lived in the same area of the lower North Shore of Sydney during this time. On 18 May 1861, Adelaide died from convulsions which she had suffered for 2...

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...

Sarah Jane Wagg was second child of William and Sarah Wagg - named after her mother (Sarah) and her maternal aunt (Jane).  A transcript of Sarah's birth registration shows she was born on 11 July 1856 at Botany Road, Redfern - just over 6 months after the death of her brother, William George.  Her father, William Wagg, a drayman, aged 28 from the West of England is the informant.  Sarah Turner, aged 23 and born in Sydney is shown as Sarah Jane's mother.  The date and place of William and Sarah's marriage is recorded as 18 April 1853 at St James Church, Sydney.  The transcript also show the previous issue as "1 boy deceased". By the mid 1860s, the Wagg family has moved to the Blues Point area on the North Shore of Sydney Harbour. In 1883, Sarah Jane, aged 27, married James Judkins Gillett, aged 35.  The marriage is registered at St Leonards.  James Judkins was born in about January 1848 in Islington, England.  He was the second child and o...

Today seemed like a appropriate time to focus on George Turner, the father of Sarah and Jane as it's highly likely that George died on 16 May 1847 - 170 years ago today! Our cousin, Leonie, has led the "The Webb Wagg Family" research into George and his wife Mary Ann Hand with many hour spent pouring over microfiche at the NSW State Archives and the Society of Australian Genealogists.  What's written here is a mixture of fact and informed speculation! We are confident that George Turner, our many times great-grandfather, was born in about 1805 in York, England to William and Sarah Turner. We have fragments of George's indenture paper that have been handed down through "The Williams" and provided by George's 3X great-granddaughter, Linda. Fragment of George Turner's Indenture Paper Understandably, this document is fragile at it's almost 200 years old!  George's indenture commenced on 3 September 1818 when George was abo...

We are lucky to have this beautiful photo of Pearle Beatrice who passed away on this day 47 years ago. Pearle Beatrice Wendes (nee Gillett) In 1887, Pearle was born in Armidale - the only daughter and second child of James Judkins Gillett and Sarah Jane Wagg.   On 28 August 1912, Pearle married Walter Keith Jack Wendes at her parent's home, Mascotte in North Sydney.  Walter was born in about July 1883 on the Isle of Wight in England.  He was the son of Charles and Emily Wendes.   Family Notices (1912, September 7).  The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) , p. 14.  Retrieved May 15, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28132826 Pearle and Walter's only child, Thelma Muriel, was born in 1913.  When Thelma was about 12, Walter and Pearle were divorced. In the 1930 and 1937 Electoral Rolls, Pearle shows her occupation as a dressmaker and she is living at 35 Concord Road Hurstville.  The photo sh...

On this day in 1939, Charles Webb-Wagg died at his residence at 15 Johnson Street, Chatswood. Known as Charles  or Charlie, he is second on the left in this photo. Charles was born on 23 June 1862 at Table Bay, North Shore, St Leonards. On 30 January 1893, he married Amy Agnes Clancy at St Davids Church of England, Surry Hills.  There have been many references to Charles over the recent weeks - with the   two Clancy sisters marrying the two Webb Wagg brothers, Mary Foy going over on Charlie's houseboat (and discussing Chris Webb and Claude and Hazel Webb over in Adelaide) and his being an informant on many of the death registrations of both Webb Waggs and Tricketts. My mum always talked about "Uncle Charlie" with affections even though she was only eleven when he died.  The Sydney Morning Herald of 17 May 1939 records:- "Mr Charles Webb-Wagg, who died at his residence, Chatswood, at the age of 78, had lived in North Sydney nearly all his ...