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Adrian Webb (born 1943), British academic; Aileen Osborn Webb (1892–1979), American aristocrat; Ambrose Henry Webb (1882–1964), Irish judge; Amy Webb (born 1974), American author
The Latin name Caesarea was also applied to the colony of New Jersey as Nova Caesarea, because the Roman name of the island was thought to have been Caesarea. [70] [71] The name "Jersey" most likely comes from the Norse name Geirrsey, meaning 'Geirr's Island'. [72] New Mexico: November 1, 1859: Nahuatl via Spanish: Mēxihco via Nuevo México
Media related to William Robert Webb at Wikimedia Commons; William R. Webb at Find a Grave; United States Congress. "William R. Webb (id: W000232)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Laurence McMillin (1971). The Schoolmaker: Sawney Webb and the Bell Buckle Story. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0 ...
William is related to the German given name Wilhelm. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic *Wiljahelmaz, with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name Vilhjalmr and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin Willelmus. The Proto-Germanic name is a compound of *wiljô "will, wish, desire" and *helmaz "helm, helmet". [3]
Williams is a surname of English origin derived from the personal name William and the genitive ending -s. [2] It is also common in Wales, where it represents an anglicization of the Welsh patronymic ap Gwilym .
[1] [2] The Wentworth branch of Virginia and Maryland, and the Australian Wentworths, are descended from another son Roger. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Wentworth family, along with the Arden family , the Berkeley family , the Swinton family , and the Grindlay family , is descended in the male line from pre-Norman Conquest Anglo-Saxon roots.
Webb was born on January 31, 1851, to James Watson Webb and Laura Virginia (née Cram) Webb (1826–1890). [3] Among his many siblings were Alexander Stewart Webb, [4] a noted Civil War general who married Anna Elizabeth Remsen; [5] Henry Walter Webb, [6] also a railway executive who married Amelia Howard Griswold; [7] and George Creighton Webb, a Yale Law School graduate and attorney in New ...
William Tucker was born near Jamestown of the Colony of Virginia c. 1624, [4] and appears on the Virginia Muster of 1624/5, the first comprehensive census made in North America. [5] His parents were Isabell and Anthony, African indentured servants. [2] [4] When he was born, there were 22 Africans in the colony, most of whom arrived in 1619. [2]