The Webb Family

Eleanor's Ancestors

Philipe Keaser (alias Webb b.1540? d.1612) married Ellin (b.1545? d.1604) They had the following children: William - born 1567? Syslie - born 1569 Ann - born 1570 Henry (I) - born 1572 Thomas - born 1573 Gyles - born 1574 Andrew - born 1575 Joanne - born 1577 George - born 1579 Roger - born 1581	Philippe Keaser was born during the reign of Henry VIII and became a small farmer. He is described in one record as being Philipe Cazer, alias Webb. We don't know why he changed his name, but he is earliest Webb in my family tree. He was probably a second or third generation immigrant from a Flemish weaving family. He lived in Horseheath with his wife Ellin. In 1558 Elizabeth I came to the throne, so Philippe's family we true Elizabethans. Elizabeth remained on the throne until 1603
William Webb married Alice Flacke and they had the following children: Alice - born 1589 Thomas - born 1602 John - born 1606	In 1588 the Spanish Armada is defeated and England feels saved from Popish rule. In 1603 James I of England (VI of Scotland) comes to the throne.
Thomas Webb married Margaret and they had the following children: Henry (III) - born 1630 Thomas - born 1632 Mary - born 1634, died 1699 Isacke - born 1637 Katherine - born 1640 Philip - born 1641, died 1641 Jacob - born 1643, died 1644	Thomas is the most likely father of Henry (III), although alternative lines of descent may be through Philipe Keasers sons Henry (I) or Thomas. For further details see "Over the Gogs - the Webbs of Cambridgeshire" The family lived through the years of Charles I's reign and the Civil War. They were probably sympathisers of Oliver Comwell, living in the heart of Parliament country.
Henry Webb (III) married Judith (d.1705) and they had the following children: Thomas - born 1671, died 1671 Henry (IV) - born 1673 Judith - born 1675	The family lived in Horseheath and Henry was probably a farmer.
Henry Webb (IV) (died 1710) married Mary (died 1702) and they had the following child: Mary - born 1702 Henry Webb (IV) then married his second wife Anne (died 1727) and they had the following children: Henry (V) - born 1706 Samuel - born 1708 Catherine - born 1710	In 1707 Henry sold all his estate lying in Horseheath, Bartlow and Shudy Camps but retained a small tenement for his own use. The sale was probably needed to pay debts he had inherited from his father's estate. He leased some farmland back. After Henry (IV) died, his widow Anne married the local publican, John Edward Webb (from another Webb family in the village) in 1713. He was the proprietor of 'the Unicorn', from 1780 to this day it has been known as the Red Lion, Horseheath. Together they has five children: Mary, Anne, Edward, John and Robert. This family, together with the four step children all lived at the Unicorn.
Henry Webb (V) (died 1773) married Jane (died 1764) and they had the following children: Anne - born 1730 Jane - born 1732 Henry (VI) - born 1733, died 1824 Samuel (I) - born 1737 Edward - died 1748 Judith Mary - died 1765 Catherine Elizabeth Alice	Henry Webb (V) aged 26 took over running the Unicorn in 1732 when John Edward Webb died and held the licence for 45 years. When Henry (V) died, his son Henry (VI) inherited 'The Unicorn' but the licence passed to his 'Aunt Catherine'. Henry (VI) was rather lazy and appeared before the magistrates a couple of times. Debts accumulated and within a few years he had obtained a mortgage for Ł100 on 'The Unicorn'. Over the next 12 years things got worse until he finally defaulted on his mortgage and lost virtually all his property. It was the new owner that changed the name to 'The Red Lion'. This is a picture of Samuel Webb I as an old man. In his younger days he was known to be a mischief maker throughout the village. He was apprenticed to a blacksmith in Haverhill. Once he completed his apprenticeship, he went to work in Saffron Walden.
Samuel Webb (I) (died 1808) married Mary Taylor (born 1729, died 1810) on 11 June 1760 and they had the following children: Henry (VII) - born 1761, died 1827 Samuel (II) - born 1764	About five years after his marriage Samuel Webb (I) decided to become a farmer and got the teancy of 'Harleka' farm near Thurlow. However, Sam was ambitous and wanted a larger farm. He heard that the tenancy of Streetly Hall was available, which was only a mile from his childhood home. He got the tenancy of the farm and moved there on horseback with his wife. He brought his flocks and herds with him. Samuel Webb was the first of the Webbs to farm at Streetly Hall, near West Wickham in Cambridgeshire. This is Streetly Old Hall where the family lived then:
Samuel Webb (II) (died 1856) married Mary Jonas of Thurlow (born 1772, died 1840) and they had the following children: Samuel - born 1795, died 1880 - married Rebecca Slater who died along with her first baby. Samuel died a childless widower. Jonas - born 10 Nov. 1796 Thomas - born 1799, died 1874 - married Elizabeth Potter and lived at Manor Farm Hildersham John - born 1800, died 1881 - a batchelor Rebecca - born 1802 - married M. Slater and had 3 sons Henry (VIII) - born 1804 - married Mary and farmed at Needham Hall, Gazeley Jane - born 1806, died 1892 Mary - born 1808, died 1809 Mary Ann - born 1809 died 1810 William - born 1811, died 1811 George - born 1813, died 1876 - married Fanny Andrews of Hempstead William - born 1815, died 1848	Samuel Webb (II) in 1850. As a young man ("Young Sam") he took over the management of Harleka Farm. When his father died in 1820, he moved back to Streetly Hall with his family, leaving his eldest son Samuel in charge at Harleka. He died peacefully in his sleep the day after dining with five of his sons and is buried in Horseheath chuchyard. Young Sam's sons, Samuel and Jonas were involved in laying out under the Enclosure Act the Babraham estate under the ownership of Henry John Adeane, and when completed, Jonas asked for a tenancy of Church Farm on the Babraham estate. Henry (VIII) farmed at Needham Hall, Gazeley. In 1853 there was an attempted murder committed in his house. His cook, Mary Anne Knights, was attacked and stabbed by a young man called James Everitt who had paid her some attention 18 months beforehand, but learning he was fond of drink she discarded him. He came to the house while the Webb family were at church. He got passed Miss Cooke who was staying at the hall and attacked Mary and stabbed her in the neck. Henry Webb's baliff saw what was going on and when he reached the house, Everitt ran off.
Jonas Webb (died 10 Nov. 1862) married Mary Marshall at St Edwards Church, Cambridge on 26 May 1829 and they had the following children: Henry (IX) - born 1830 Mary - born 1831 - married Henry Waters and had 2 sons and 2 daughters Ann(ie) - born 18333 - married J Turner Samuel Jonas - born 1834 - married his cousin Emma (Thomas's daughter) and had 2 daughters Alice - born 1835 - married Fison Emma Elizabeth - born 1838 - married William Turpin Louisa - born 1839 - married John Carter Jonas and had 5 sons and 2 daughters Jonas - born 1840, died 1906 - married Mary Marshall West and had 4 sons, 3 daughters William Jonas - born 1842	This is Jonas Webb. Aged 23 he took up his tenancy of the 500 acre Church Farm in Babraham. He secured the tenancy of Reed Barn Farm on the Adeane estate in Babraham for his brother Samuel (which he farmed until 1879) and he persuaded his father to give up Harleka farm at Thurlow. Jonas set about breeding southdown sheep and shorthorn cattle. He established a pedigree flock of southdowns at Church Farm and by the end of his life his sheep had been exported all over the globe as far as New Zealand and South America. He also presented one of his prize-winning rams to Emperor Napoleon III, who in turn gave him a fine silver centrepiece of mares and foals under an English Oak. He also organised massive 'ram-lettings', which by 1840 had attracted crowds of 2000 people. By letting his rams rather than selling them he kept conrtol of his stock. Physically he was a striking man, so much so that somebody sent to give him an invitation when he was due to visit Paris was told to place it in the hands of the noblest-looking man he could find on the cross channel steamer. At 65 he decided he would sell his whole southdown flock and retire, retaining only his shorthorn herd. The dispersal sale was on 10 July 1861 and over 1000 people attended the sale. The proceeds of the sale were Ł16,000. Within a year Jonas' wife Mary was seriously ill. When told she wouldn't recover Jonas himself became ill and on the day of her funeral Jonas died too. You can find out more information about Jonas Webb from Susan Baines' webpage here. Jonas Webb's statue that stands in Babraham village High Street, and used to stand in the Corn Exchange, Market Hill, Cambridge. This is a picture of Church farm farmhouse. More pictures of Church Farm can be found here.
Henry Webb (IX) (died 1911) married Emily Corthorn (born 1831, died 1903) and they had the following children: Emily Mary - born 1857, died 1924 - married E Beck and had 7 sons Jonas Marshall - born 1859, died 1930 - married Catherine Robinson and had 3 daughters Marion - born 1861, died 1926 comitted suicide in a river in Norwich Henry (Harry) Corthorn (X) - born 1862, died 1936 - married Mabel Chalk of Linton and had 2 sons and a daughter Frederick Noel - born 1866 Louisa - born 1869, died 1953 Samuel Owen - born 1871, died 1952 - married Emilie Shroder first, then Alice West Webb Hubert Coote - born 1872, died 1956 - married Amy Newton and had a son and daughter Eleanor Ann - born 1874, died 1932 - married Sidney Lunniss and had a son and a daughter (twins)	Here are Henry Webb IX's family in front of Streetly Old Hall. Henry (X) took over the management of Streetly Hall when 'Young Sam' (his grandfather) died in 1856. Henry concentrated on perfecting his southdown flock and when he finally sold them in 1889/1890 the average price per head was greater than when his father Jonas sold his (so he was obviously a very competant breeder). Henry Webb (X)'s grandson, John Webb has written the book "Over the Gogs - the Webbs of Cambridgeshire" which contains lots more details about the whole webb family and further details about Henry (X)'s descendents. You can buy a copy from Amazon.co.uk. As many of Henry (IX)'s sons moved to farm elsewhere, the management of Streetly fell to Owen. Owen took up the opportunity that low land prices offered and bought the freehold of Streetly. The Webbs were now land owners! All of Owen's brothers and sisters left Streetly to live and work elsewhere over the years, leaving him with his wife Emillie living there alone. Emillie was not keen on the old house, and so Owen selected a site for a new house further up the hill. This was to become new Streetly Hall. During the first world war, Emillie was unpopular due to her German origin and with Owen too old for service they had a rather unhappy time farming at Streetly through the war years. Emillie died in 1921. Owen then married his cousin Alice. In the 1920s and 30s she was a renowned hostess and both she and Owen were established figures in the community. Sadley they had no children and Owen lived at Streetly for over eighty years until his death in 1952.
Frederick Webb (died 1923) married Ida Mary Long (born 1876, died 1952) and had the following children: Nancy - born 1897, died 1975 - married Rev. E Reid and had 2 sons and a daughter Jack - born 1898, died 1986. Did not marry Jonas - born 1901 Henry (XI) - born 1903, died 1984 - married Celia and had 2 daughters	Frederick left Streetly to farm at Great Bradley Hall, Suffolk for his father in law. Later he became the agent at the Adeane estate at Babraham and it was at Babraham he and his wife Ida bought up their family. After the second world war Jack and his mother Ida went to live at Streetly, eventually settling in the old hall while Owen was still alive. When Owen died he left his estate in trust. The new Streetly Hall was left to his widow Alice for her lifetime after which it was to be sold; Streetly Old Hall and the farms were left to Jack for his lifetime and then if he had no children, to his brother Henry (XI), and then to John Webb (Henry Webb (X)'s grandson). In 1970 Alice died and Jack bought new Streetly Hall. Jack was the last of the Webbs to live and farm at Streetly Hall. Aged 87 he was still farming and hunting (which he loved) and he died in 1986. This is how the new Streetly Hall looked in 2006. The Streetly estates left to Jack under Owen's will passed to John Webb (Henry (XI) having died previously). New Streetly Hall passed under Jack's will to Nancy's son Peter Reid. As neither Peter Reid, nor John Webb were farmers and they both had children in other professions, they felt that the best interests of the farm, the properties and the people who worked there was to sell Streetly as a complete holding to a farmer on the condition he kept all the farmhands on. Thus Streetly was no longer occupied by the Webbs.
Jonas Webb (died 1968) married Marjorie Clarke and they had the following children: Susan Victoria Noel - born December 1947	Jonas emigrated to Canada and worked as a chemical engineer developing ways of using corn syrup for the mass production of penicillin. It was while he was in Canada that he met his wife Marjorie. Jonas and Marjorie were living in the state of Victoria, Australia when their baby daughter Susan was born. They enjoyed some propserous years in their sunny new home, but work eventually brought the family back to England and they lived in Manchester for a few years. The little Susan remembers the sea voyage back to England (while her mother was very sea sick). She was bribed to go by the promise of television, but the grey Manchester was rather disappointing for her. The family moved to West Wratting and Susan went to the Girls High School in Long Road, Cambridge (now a Sixth Form College). After enjoying her days studying Biology at Queen Mary College, part of London University, she decided to stay another year in London and study as a teacher. It was at teacher training college that she met Stephen Baines. This is Jonas Webb's grave in West Wickham churchyard, with his granddaughters: Claudia Baines, Eleanor Clapp and Philippa Moore (taken in 2006).
Stephen Baines (born May 1946) married Susan Webb on 23 December 1971 and they had the following children: Claudia - born December 1974 Eleanor - born February 1978 Philippa - born February 1978 - married Andrew Moore and have a daughter, Rosie and (nearly) a son, Jonas.	Stephen and Susan lived in Stoke by Nayland when they were first married but moved to Marks Tey, near Colchester and bought a house together. Stephen carried on teaching while Susan gave up work to look after her family. It was in the house at Marks Tey that their three daughters grew up: Claudia the eldest and identical twins Eleanor and Philippa. Claudia studied Biology at Birmingham University and then went to work as a sales rep for pharmaceutical company Merck. She then settled in Northampton working for Silverstone racing circuit. Eleanor studied natural sciences at St Catherine's College Cambridge, specialising in pathology. She then trained and worked as a commercial property solicitor with a large city firm and moved to Sawston (very close to where her Great, Great, Great Grandfather Jonas Webb farmed). Philippa studied natural sciences at Newnham College, Cambridge, specialising in Mateiral Sciences. She did a PhD with The Welding Institue on lazar welding of steel and she had continued to work for TWI ever since. She lives in Trumpington, near Cambridge.
Timothy Charles Clapp (born September 1973) married Eleanor Brenda Baines. They have the following children: Charles Matthew - born March 2007. Emilia Sophie - born January 2009	Eleanor met Timothey Clapp at University and they moved to Welwyn Garden City and then bought a house together there in 2002. Tim worked for EADS Astrium based in Stevenage while Eleanor commuted on the train to London. On 9 August 2003 they got married at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, with the reception held at John's College (Tim's old college). They moved to Sawston in December 2005 when Eleanor moved to a different firm and then Tim got a job with Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR) based on the Science Park in Cambridge. Go to Tim and Eleanor's wedding page here Go to Charlie and Millie's webpage here for pictures of them.