The answer to question one is 'how long is a piece of string?' :) Until you can check every known document in existencefor a reference to Webbs then you will not know for definite. What you can do is search sites/indexes such as Norfolk Transcription Archive http://www.doun.org/transcriptions/index.php FreeREG - http://www.freereg.org.uk/ and FamilySearch - https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list#page=1®ion=UNITED_KINGDOM_IRELAND Norfolk FHS also have online searching of their indexes available to members. http://www.norfolkfhs.org.uk/ Membership's a bargain at a tenner a year. (Even cheaper if you sign up for 10 years!) Someone might know the answers to questions 2 and 3. Or you might find them yourself in your search. Pam On 01/07/2014 09:00, Robert Webb wrote: > hi > 1. Does anyone know when the WEBB’s first arrived in Norfolk > 2. Does anyone know when the WEBB’s first arrived in the Kings Lynn area > 3. Does anyone have any connections to the WEBB families in the Kings Lynn area prior to 1770 or with James WEBB who married Anne Spooner 1795 and their son William born c 1803 > Regards > Robert Webb > > -------------------------------
As one of the previous responses has indicated, here could be multiple sources of the name WEBB, as it is simply an occupational name meaning Weaver. Given that a common trade in Norfolk was weaving, it could be a surname endemic to Norfolk itself. Your are also going to find that the appearance of the surname goes back well before normal records used for genealogy. In addition to the list identified by Pam, you may want to also look in the NRO catalogue (NROCAT) at http://www.archives.norfolk.gov.uk/ for early references to the name that are explicitly identified there. And also look in discovery at The National Archives to see what that identifies for early WEBB references in the county. (The earliest Norfolk deed there appears to be c.1305, i.e. taking you well back to the time of surname adoption) Another identifier of early sources might be found in early Norfolk books, for which there are a number on books.google.co.uk and archive.org - for example: https://archive.org/details/indexnominumbei01blomgoog Do remember to also check for variant spellings, e.g. WEBBE. regards Keith Drage Swindon UK On 01/07/2014 09:44, Pam Downes wrote: > The answer to question one is 'how long is a piece of string?' :) > Until you can check every known document in existencefor a reference to > Webbs then you will not know for definite. > What you can do is search sites/indexes such as Norfolk Transcription > Archive > http://www.doun.org/transcriptions/index.php > FreeREG - http://www.freereg.org.uk/ > and FamilySearch - > https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list#page=1®ion=UNITED_KINGDOM_IRELAND > > Norfolk FHS also have online searching of their indexes available to > members. > http://www.norfolkfhs.org.uk/ > Membership's a bargain at a tenner a year. (Even cheaper if you sign up > for 10 years!) > > Someone might know the answers to questions 2 and 3. Or you might find > them yourself in your search. > > Pam > > > On 01/07/2014 09:00, Robert Webb wrote: >> hi >> 1. Does anyone know when the WEBB’s first arrived in Norfolk >> 2. Does anyone know when the WEBB’s first arrived in the Kings Lynn area >> 3. Does anyone have any connections to the WEBB families in the Kings Lynn area prior to 1770 or with James WEBB who married Anne Spooner 1795 and their son William born c 1803 >> Regards >> Robert Webb >> >> ------------------------------- > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message