'Webb05'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Webb of Ashwick, Webb of Frittenden, Webb (Wood) of Hackney

                               
Visitation identifies the arms of this family as "Per fess Gules and Argent a cross flory between four mallets countercharged" which is very different to that of the family on Webb04 (of Gloucestershire), as may be expected from its very different roots.
William Richmond of Yorkshire
,. _ Webb (dau/heir of Thomas Webb of Dracot, Wiltshire)
1. William Richmond, alias Webb
  A. William Webbe alias Richmond
  i. Thomas Webb
  a. Edmund Webb
  (1) Oliver Webbe of Rodburne, Wiltshire
  B. Christopher Webb
  i. Nicholas Webb of Ashwick in Marshfield, Gloucestershire
  a. William Webb of Ashwick
  (1) Christopher Webb of Ashwick (b c1595, d 1676-7)
  m. Lucy Narborne (dau of _ Narborne of Studley in Calne, Wiltshire)
  (A) Nicholas Webb (b c1646, d 1670)
m. Susan Whittington of Hamswell
  (i) William Webb of Ashwick (b c1659, bur 1724)
  m. Elizabeth Tipper (bur 1719, dau of William Tipper of Marshfield)
  (a) Lucy Webb (b c1681, d 1746)
  (b) Mary Webb (d 1737)
  m. John Morris (b c1699, d 1774, Vicar of Aldbourne)
  ((1))+ issue - William (d 736), Mary (d 1774)
  (ii) George Webb (bur 1746)
  (B) Anne Webb
  m1. Robert Burnell of Brimsall in Yate
  m2. George Raymond of Yate (b c1631, a 1683)
  (C) Mary Webb (d young)

 

 

Descended from Richard Webb (a 1324) was ...
William Webb of Frittenden, Kent (a 1444)
1. John Webb of Frittenden
  A. William Webb of Frittenden
  m. _ Scott of Conghurst
  i. John Webb of Frittenden
  m. Thomasin Giles (sister of Alured Giles)
  a. William Webb of Frittenden (a 1594)
  m. Martha Shakelton (dau of William Shakelton, coheir of Sir Rowland Hayward of London)
  (1) Richard Webb of Frittenden
  m. Mary Taylor (dau of Thomas Taylor of London)
  (A) George Webb (b c1607)
m. Hester Baker (dau of John Baker of Challock)
  (i) Richard Webb of Frittenden (a 1663)
  Berry ends with this Richard. BHO ('The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, vol 7, 'Parishes: Frittenden') reports that this line ended with the undermentioned Lucy, dau of Thomas of Frittenden who we presume was Richard's son or brother.
  (a) Thomas Webbe of Frittenden possibly of this generation
  ((1)) Lucy Webbe
  m. (1692) Sir William Dutton Colt
  (B)+ other issue - Charles (b c1609, a 1619), Richard (b c1611, a 1619), John (b c1615, a 1619), Francis, Martha, Mary, Ann
  (2)+ other issue - Gresham, Thomas, Sands, Francis

 

 

MGH identifies the arms of the following family as "Gules a fess srmine between three owls or". MGH starts with Anthony but as show one earlier generation in order to include his "presumed sister".
?? Webb
1. Anthony Webb of London & Hackney (bur 18.03.1672-3) the first mentioned by Gage
  m. (27.08.1633) Elizabeth Wood (bpt 02.07.1612, bur 22.10.1689, sister/coheir of Sir Henry Wood of Loudham Park, Hart)
A. Thomas Webb, later Wood of Hackney (d 18.07.1709, Clerk of the Kitchen to King William III)
  MGH reports that Thomas "assumed the name of Wood on the death of (his cousin) the Duchess of Southampton". She was bur 16.11.1680.
  m. Susanne
  i. John Webb alias Wood (dsp bur 02.09.1711)
  ii. Susanna Webb or Wood (bpt 23.11.1676, d 07..01743)
  m. (1709) Robert Oneby of Barwell d 02.1720-1, m1. Judith Chester)
  iii. Bethia Webb or Wood (bpt 29.01.1683-4, d 29.09.1743)
  m.(04.03.1717-8) Sir Francis Chester, Bart (b 03.05.1694, bur 30.10.1766)
  iv. Grace Webb or Wood (bpt 18.04.1689, d 1738)
  m1. William Bressey or Bracy
  a. William Bressey or Bressy or Bracy of Battersea (d unm before 1753)
m2. William Seward of London
  b. Grace Seward
  m. (by 1760) Josiah Roberts
  v. Elizabeth Webb or Wood (bpt 30.07.1685, bur 21.06.1733)
  m. Sir William Chapman, Bart (d 07.05.1737)
  vi.+ other issue - Henry (bpt 08.01.1677-8, bur 05.02.1677-8),Anthony (bpt 12.02.1679-80, d 11.1691), Sarah (bpt 08.01.1678-9, bur 07.04.1683), Sarah (but 20.01.1690-1)
  B. Henry Webb, later Wood of Hackney (d 1710) had issue?
  MGH reports that Henry was "Testamentary heir of his uncle Thomas Wood Bishop of Lichfield". Gage suggests that he dsp but MGH that he had issue.
  C. Elizabeth Webb
  m. Sir John Chapman (Alderman of London)
  D.+ other issue (d unm) - Robert (bpt 21.10.1634, bur 08.11.1634), Anthony (bur 16.09.1642), Benjamin (bpt 25.10.1641, d young), Samuel (bpt 31.04.1642, d young), John (bur 20.02.1654-5), William (\bur 31.03.1658), Mary (bur 25.11.1708), Frances
2. Anne Webb (dsps bur 09.06.1648
  m. (c1630) Sir Henry Wood of Hackney, later of Loudham Park, Bart (d 25.05.1671)

Main source(s):
(1) For upper section (uploaded 15.10.20) : Visitation (Fenwick & Metcalfe (1884), Gloucestershire, 1682-3, 'Webb of Ashwick in Marshfield')
(2) For middle section (originally uploaded on 27.01.17 to WZmisc11, moved here 15.10.20) : CountyGen (Kent, Berry, p302)
(3) For lower section (uploaded 21.11.20, reviewed 29.08.23 using Gage) : MGH (NS1, vol 1 (1874), 'Webb alias Wood', p14+), 'History and Antiquities of Suffolk: Thingoe Hundred' (John Gage, 1938, p391)
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