webb of frocester

Thomas (?) Webbe = Helen (nee Browne, a widow living at Frocester in 1522)

Born circa 1465 and possibly descended from the Webbe family of Eastington through John Webbe The two coats of arms above come from the bookplates of Daniel Webb of Cowley, the next village to Eastington and Frocester, who was assessed at £10 in the Military Survey who married Ann Peploe in 1790, and Elizabeth Frances, only daughter of Col. of 1522. This John may have been the eldest son of Thomas Webbe of Churchend Mill, Eastington Edward Webb, M.P. for Gloucester in 1816. The Webb coat is that of the ancient who died 1509, and also the father of Thomas Webbe of Frocester who died sometime before 1522 family of Wolworth alias Webbe of Dursley and Wotton under edge, and it is leaving a young family. The Webbes of Eastington, who had held the mill there since 1444, the Webbes yet to be established whether the Webbs of Frocester were entitled to use it, or indeed descend of Frocester, and John Webbe of Coaley were all reasonably wealthy for the day, but the latter was not from the same family. It was bestowed upon a master Flemish Weaver called Richard who was part of the manorial system suggesting he may have been in cloth production, and not farming. encouraged to settle in Gloucestershire by King Edward lll around 1320 to help our native DNA evidence suggests the Webbes of Frocester shared a common ancestor pre 1500 with a Webb weaving industry produce better cloth. According to a tradition recorded by Thomas Fuller in family long established in Northern Ireland. Skilled weavers were encouraged to settle in province his ‘Church History of Britain’ of 1655 he was so successful that the King honoured him during the 17th Century to help with the native linen industry and Roger Webb, born 1622 in Lurgan with the name Webbe (and a Coat of Arms) in recognition of his skill as a weaver. to Edward Webb, was one of the first men to practise Quakerism in Ireland. Thomas Webbe’s immedi- ate forbears were also likely to have been weavers, the traditional occupation of people bearing the name Webbe. ______Thomas = Elizabeth (or Isabel John = Margaret Husbandman of Frocester who took over a copyhold lease in 1530 on according to the Husbandman of Frocester d.1556. He took out a copyhold lease in 1533 35.5 acres of land in Peter Street, Frocester and it passed down the renewal of her on 23 acres of land in Frocester also under the name Webb alias Browne; Webb family under the name Browne Webb alias until 1724. It was lease after it was for himself and the life of his daughter Joan. John Jr. probably died common for copyhold leases to be held by two names separated by an her because Joan took over the copyhold with John Wayt alias Bonde, her alias and often indicated a woman had inherited a right to land which widowhood husband. The cottage stood on the right hand side of the lodge gate to she then passed onto her husband. B. circa 1490 & d. 1548. He was 1550) Frocester Court and there are still irregularities in the ground marking the site. assessed at £8 in the Military Survey of 1522, a reasonable sum. He was assessed at only 10s. in the Glos. Lay Subsidy of 1526. ______John Webb = Katherine Alice Jane Anne Alice Edward = ? Joan = John Husbandman of Frocester She died 1585 Husbandman who may have settled Wayt Died 1579 & mentions an He was born circa at Uley and re-married Avice (Alice) Nicholas of Beverston in 1563. Alice Nicholas in his will. 1520. Edward of Uley left a son John (called Webbe alias Wilkens) and died 1575. Joanna b. 1561 at Frocester ______John = 1) Joanna Wilkins d. pre 1579. 2) Alice? Thomas = Edith Anne = John Witcom (broad weaver Joan = Thomas Peglar Alice = Francis Christiana = John Yeoman of Horsley who died 1638. Churchwarden in 1611 d. 1637 of Frocester who d. 1618) of Kings Stanley Walkley Warner Married at Frocester 1570 & had an and d. 1643 He owned a light musket She may have been the sister of Anthony Webbe. Tucker of Horsley d.1642. In her will she leaves of Frocester only daughter Eliz. who married and was a trained soldier according to a her cousins, ‘John and Hester Webb who live with her, two brass candlesticks and two pewter platters.’ They m. in John Hutchins. b. circa 1550 military survey of 1608, They were probably Anthony’s children. (see Webb of Horsley) 1574 & he d. ______1595 John Webb the elder = Joan Katherine = John Alicia = George Thomas = 1) Gill Horwood Eliza = ?Alldy Christiana Nicholas = Esther 1581 - 1653 Water b. 1577 Wilkins b. 1579 Pegler b. 1584 = 2) Catherine b. 1591 b.1582 b. Frocester 1586 d. 1647 Draper Yeoman of Frocester d. 1669 He rented Cloterbuck d. 1656 He was Mayor of Gloucester and m. 1613 ______a cottage next 3) Alice King, a widow by family tradition shut the gates of at Tirley and John Webb Junior = Deborah Hester = William to the main Webb in 1675. She died in 1685 of that City to the Royalists in 1643. d. 1668 He continued to farm the land d. 1714 Nurse property in Frocester & left all her property to He owned lands in Maismore and Sneedham in Peter’s Street, Frocester that and does not appear to her own people with no near Gloucester and there were monuments his family had worked since have had any children but mention of Webbs. to him, his wife and many of his descendants in St 1520 but also owned land in received legacies from his Michael’s Church, Gloucester, before its demolition. Upton St Leonards, Owlpen & two wealthier brothers. According to a Military Survey of Gloucester in 1608 Halmers Mill in Coaley. He A controversial character - he was defamed Nicholas was a very short man compared to died in 1686 leaving most of his in 1631 and 1637 by two neighbours in Frocester who said his father and siblings which might explain estate and £500 in cash to his two he was ‘a whoremonger and did keep a hundred whores’. why he was apprenticed to John Bower, a daughters, also £10 to pay for ‘a fair Died c. 1673 wealthy Gloucester Apothecary in 1601 (John tomb over my own bodie and as many of my Bower’s enormous monument can still be seen predecessors as may with convenience be in Gloucester Cathedral). Nicholas may not have done.” A large pedestal memorial inscribed ‘John Webb died August 1st 1686 ‘ and ‘John, his son died been that strong as he died aged only 61. Jan 22nd 1676 aged 1yr and 9 months‘ still stands in Frocester church yard near the old porch. John Webb’s widow Buried at St Michael’s Gloucester where a monument continued living in the property in Peter’s Street until her own death in 1724 which bought the tenancy to a close after two used to exist to him & hundred years. The site of the Webb’s demolished house in Peter’s Street is now occupied by a row of cottages numbered 8 - 11. The original timbered and his wife. thatched building was demolished around 1840. Frocester church registers record the death of Richard Harris - the illegitimate son of John Webb. His daughter Jane 1681-1742 married at Frocester 1707 Charles Weston of Berkeley, and his daughter Hester 1684-1736 died unmarried - there are armorial monuments to them both in Berkeley Church. ______Nicholas 1621 - 1691 = Alice Beard Hester Richard Eliz. Elinor John, Mayor of Gloucester 1629 - 1686 = Jane Jane Thomas Apothecary of Gloucester 1627 - 1687 m.1633 b. 1623 b. 1617 b. 1626 A mercer who in 1682 congratulated Lord Weymouth Greville 1625 - 1643 Gave Ch. plate to St Michaels m. 1642 Walter Lane d. yng. d. 1620 on becoming a Viscount with the gift of 2 Lamphrey pies. dau. of Gyles Greville, Mercer Dau of Rich. Beard, Alderman and Mercer of Gloucester, who was buried in St Michaels Church 1638. ______Nicholas = Deborah Webb Anne Esther Thomas Anne = Thomas, Mayor & John Rector of = Arabella Col. Nicholas, Governor of Gyles Hester Alderman d. of Thomas b. 1650 b. 1658 of Gloucester, Guise M.P. for Gloucester Bredon, Worc. Sutton Providence Island 1699 Captain who married of Glouc. Webb* of the m. 1669 d. 1684 Attorney d. 1701 dau. of 1663 - 1734 1654 - 1713 1668 - 1697 in the Bahamas and ship emigrated to John Lysons, Owned Hill, Painswick. Daniel Owned land in Jn. Guise Q. Anne presented him Fellow of owner. Made a fortune Henrico Co. 2nd cousin to small Nicholas gave a Lysons, woollen draper Slimbridge, of with a gold medal for All Souls. by illicit dealings with Pirates Virginia & married Daniel Lysons estates at prayer book to St She d. 1705 * Cam & Ablode his noble and but lost it back to them on return the widow of H. who married Upleadon Michaels, Glos. Berkeley. He Court, Glos. conscientious political voyage from Providence Is. Randolph Jr. in 1713, her cousin b. 1647 in 1710, also a collection was born 1652 and married b.1667 m.1691 conduct. He was injured in 1700 when ship was attacked. In 1700 he very earnestly Anne Webb. d. 1712 of church plate. Catherine Hamonds in 1680. Thomas made by a fall from the hustings He married Mary Chace at Barbados & efficiently Hester married Married She d. 1735.His son Daniel and daughters of a will (1734) during a contested election in 1714, and had a son Nicho. in 1715 assisted John in 1687 at Stroud of his son Thomas became embroiled in a court but it has been of 1713. Miss E.F.Webb left his and died in the Bahamas. Huguenot emigrants 1670. case over the ownership of his estates around 1757. lost. gold medal to Major Peploe in 1876. in Virginia and contributed to their well-being. ______Nicholas of Barton St Anna = Charles Hyett John Rector NIcholas = Susannah John Rector of Bredon = Mary Hazlewood Frances = Philip Godsal & Mayor of Gloucester. m. in 1669 of Hemptsead & Merchant of Bliss of 1668 - 1724 1668 - 1735 1787-1754 of Tewkesbury m. 1702 Joyce Savage but Ancestor of the HYETTS OF Gt Rissington Gloucester Chalford ______died without issue leaving PAINSWICK HOUSE b.1693 1697-1770 John (Tewkesbury Ironmonger)=Anne Godsal Philip Thomas=Susannah various Webb estates and money Matric. Oxford 1719-1766 1726-1795 1716-1763 Lake to the Hyetts in 1715. 1708 ______Samuel Webb d. 1753 Anne = Philip * Daniel Lysons and his wife Anne nee Webb had a son Daniel who Thomas Dennis 1749-1844 1747-1826 leased the estate of Norton before it was sold to his cousin Capt John b.1695 (unmarried ANCESTORS OF CODSALS OF ISCOED Webb b.1730. He then inherited Hempstead the Lysons family estate. sister d. pre 1770) ______Nicholas = ? John Anne=John Lloyd Thomas = Joyce Daniel = Anne Benjamin Daniel Rich. Nicholas Thomas John of Hester=John Born 1696 Gent of of of Mallet of Webb of Melksham Captain of Ebworth Rector Norton Court b.1730 Baskerville Probably Gloucester Wheatenhurst Moore End Brighton d.1795 Wool Merchant of the East Park of Childs Captain of East of Woolley entered H. d.s.p. Co. Gloucester Slimbridge & d.1834 Indiaman b. 1739 Wickham Indiaman “London” Wilts. E.I.S. as a 1736 1690-1754 Worthing. “London” d.s.p. 1781 d.s.p. 1802 He married Arabella 4th Mate Catherine and Wm Warlock had an only A former wool factor of Fettiplace, became M.P. for Gloucester on The son James who died in infancy & there Blackwell Hall who Susannah Mary and there is a monument to him in Gloucester Cathedral. Essex in is an armorial monument to them in Kings became Treasurer of Under 21 in 1769 He purchased the Norton Estate in Gloucestershire and had a new 1716 & Stanley Church. Thomas d.s.p. 1750 Christ’s Hospital. 5 bay house built in 1762 which became known as Norton Court. He 2nd Mate committed suicide at Norwich in a privy 1698-1770 and part owner also bought the Cote House estate on the outskirts of Bristol in 1775 on Macc- using a garter to hang himself with. of the East Indiaman Warwick - cap- and was probably responsible for giving it a ‘delightful Gothick exterior lesfield in ______trained by his which was painted by Turner in 1791. The house was sold by Arabella on John’s 1720. d. Thomas Catherine = Wm Warlock Eliz. = ? Williams nephew death in 1797 but Cote Farm appears to have been retained by her two surviving in 1733 1722-1750 1720-1803 1730-1795 Nicholas. children Edward and Frances. after trip to the East Indies and married Elizabeth. He was Captain of the ship The Bootle and in 1720 the American Weekly Mercury reported that he had been captured by pirates with 155 slaves on his way to Charles Town on Saint Kitts in the West Indies. In 1724 and 1727 he shipped merchandise to Angola in Africa where he picked up slaves and transported them to Buenos Aires. The trips were paritally funded by his brother Daniel ______Nicholas = Mary Daniel = Anne Peploe Birch John = Maria Little John = Ann Charles Edward = Jane Guise John Frances Captain of 1765-1828 1764-1846 He d.s.p. in 1830 and lived of Laing d.1852 of Norton Court and Stoke Bishop, d.s.p 1797 She the East of 3 Audley Square dau of John at Chalk Farm Chigford, 1787 Co, Gloucester, M.P. for Gloucester; lived inherited in 1806 Indiaman London, and Peploe Birch of Farnborough, Essex - 1883 with his sister Frances and daughter Elizabeth the village and estate of Adwell, Warwick, latterly Worthing Garnstone, also Sutton, Long Ditton & at Adwell after his wife’s early decease. for her own lifetime from her part owned & Tunbridge Hereford Etwell in Surrey. He spent £27000 contesting the Gloucester election in friend Mrs Jones. Frances by his uncle Wells. With his brother Daniel 1816 & died at New York in 1839. died in 1846. Daniel Webb. he inherited his father’s Elizabeth Frances He, his wife & two library and they both had She inherited a vast fortune from her father daughters, Eliz b. 1755 and Anna their own bookplates created. which had been amassed by her grandfather Maria b. 1760 are buried at Feltham He left 10 guineas/year to his John, and also from the Fettiplace family. She Hill He was b. 1724 and d. 1791, she hair dresser but nothing to his nephew John sold Norton Court in 1861 for £39500 preferring to live at was b. 1729 and died 1781. His Birch Webb on account of the insensitive way an enormous house she had built at 29 Chesham cousin John Webb 1730-1795 he had demanded money from his eldest Place. When she died in 1876 she left her money & many was 2nd Mate on the brother, Daniel P Webb on their father’s death in 1828. Webb heirlooms to her mother’s people, the Guises, Warwick in 1756/7. Both Daniel and John entered Lincoln’s Inn Court 1783. much to the chagrin of her Webb relations. Born c.1809. ______Daniel Peploe Webb Mary-Anne Anne Elizabeth Caroline John Birch Webb George Samuel Webb Edward = 1)Harriet Mary Ann = Rev Wiliam Thompson Took name of Peploe d.1875 d.1880 1801 - 1869 b.1805 He bought back 2) Alice Vicar of Kippington, on inheriting Garnstone Anne and Elizabeth m. Annie Molyneux Norton Court in 1864 Sevenoaks. from his uncle Samuel in 1845. ran the Chadnor Villa sister of Sir John, 8th Baronet. for £49150 but lost a fortune in Edward was b. 1825 & was a partner in Dent & He was a Captain in the army Well in Cheltenham. He was vicar of Weobley and she the Chinese Crash and Co. (Chinese Trade). In 1863 he lived at Blaidson, and died without issue in 1866, was a well known children’s author of her day. sold up again 1867. Glos., at High Canons House, Shenley, Herts in d. 19.1.1906 1891 & Durrington House, Sheering, Essex 1901. ______Daniel Peploe Webb Charlotte Gertrude Augustus Henry Hanmer William Nora Ella Edward Jocelyn Henry Arthur Rowland Cecil Maurice Phillip Beatrice Fought in Crimean War, d.s.p. m. Frank Kept name of Took name of = Tom = Rev b.1858 b. 1858 b.1873 Lancelot Agnes M.P. for Hereford. Poppelwell Webb, Captain Webb-Peploe Croome William (Twins who were b. 1870. Solicitor of b.1875 = Leila Metcalfe, dau. of Vicar in the Navy. nd became the Solicitor Hutchinson Tea planters in Haywards Heath = Francis Sir Thomas Metcalfe, 4th Bart. = Francis famous Vicar of St Pauls vicar of Ceylon where they m. Millicent Fielder Sykes He took the name of PEPLOE Curtis & Onslow Square - ‘the Leckhampton owned the Hindugala estate (lived in Hemel on the death of his uncle in 1866 retired to Cheltenham. Evangelical Divine’. nr. Cheltenham. near Peradeniya of about 643 acres) Hempstead in 1911) ___l______l_____ l ______Daniel = Sydney Fitzgerald Winifred Jack Millicent Whence John Nicholas = Betty Edward = Gladys Phillipa 1) Godfrey 1861- Chapman 1863- 1874- Radiologist = WEBB of 35 Cleveland Gdns Sparrow Francis Fleming. Maud 2) Charles 1937 1906 1927 of Cheltenham George Ram -PEPLOES‘ Barnes. SW13. m.1930 Daniel 225 Kneller b.1905 3) Maurice d.s.p. 1949, b. 1907 Brentford (called Constance Electrical Rd, Whitton, = the last member of this branch d.1987 Adeline b. 1908 Engineer Twickenham. George to keep the name WEBB Reigate, d. 1976 m.1939 (mentioned in Malcolm ______Richmond) Nicholas’s will) Daniel = Lady Dorothy Keith Gerald Edward J.Webb had an only son Edward k.1915 Hugh John Patrick Webb issue? Spencer Bligh killed on the d. 1904 His twin brother Henry A. had Arthur, Olive and Joyce. of 35 Cleveland Gdns (Edward F.D.Webb married only dau. of Somme Barnes, SW13 in 1987 Gladys P. Fleming at Worthing Ivo 8th Earl of 1916 born March 1932 in 1939) Darnley Reigate (A Gladys P Fleming was ______born at Blean in Kent 1912) Anthony = Anne Jane = Anthony Jervis Benjamin 1918-1981 Compton-Smith 1917-1989 (under 18 years in 1987) (Gladys Pearl Webb d. 2003 ______Winchester) Will Jennifer = John Geoffrey Anton = Jane Ivo Rupert = Charlotte Lindsay She was born 12 Aug 1912 b.1941 Chippindale 1944-1962 b.1949 Alexander b.1952 b.1961 ______Julius Arthur