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Stay in touch - I have e-mailed the historical society and will post any useful information. Out of interest it is the George family that we are trying to track, I assume you are following another family name?
Regards
Colin

No, I'm sorry to say that photo's of Cotton Row are a bit thin on the ground as are copies of the book you mention.

Hi Bob

Info attached, I will be interested in your thoughts.

Regards

Colin

Hi Valda, I think you may have hit the nail on the head with travellers, there is a strong family feeling that they may have been but I think not in the true sense of the word. Regarding the Webb's from Maldon again I think that there is a connection but I will come to that later.

Re Lazarus junior we do have his birth cert and it tells us that he was born 9th June 1898 in Penge, he also told his daughter that he had lived in Fobbing with an uncle and aunt and that they arranged for him to enter the Stifford orphanage in 1910, from there he joined the Royal Navy at 16 years of age, we have his RN record.

He also told his daughter that he had lived with the uncle and aunt at 2 Mill Cottages in Fobbing. The 1911 census for Fobbing shows one family of Webb's living in Fobbing and the mother of this family was born in Maldon (hence the possible link), unfortunately the even numbers of Mill Cottages do not appear on the 1911 census web site!. He had also told his daughter that they were market gardeners.

Sister Sarah was placed as a patient into the 'Meath home of comfort for Epileptics at Guildford, we have not managed to find admission records and have no further records for her.

As I said in my first posting the marriage certificate of Lazarus senior & Bridget Smith states that his father was John Webb & I do have census records for a John Webb married to Caroline and living in Charlton, London; this John Webb was born in Fobbing and was a market gardener, he therefore becomes my favourite but I have nothing definite.

Lazarus Webb junior was born on the 9th June 1898 in Penge, Middlesex and as young children he and his sister Sarah were placed into homes / orphanage's, Lazarus ending up in the Stepney Childrens Home at Stifford near Fobbing in Essex and Sarah in an institution in Guildford, Surrey; Sarah's place of birth is given as Fobbing, Essex, although she was actually born in Kingston, Surrey. The parents were Lazarus Webb (born about 1870) and Bridget Smith they had married at Windsor on the 20th March 1894 and it is this couple that I seek more information about. I know that Lazarus senior was an umberella repairer with a business at Penge and I believe it is likely that he came from Fobbing or nearby but I am struggling with his birth and parentage; his marriage certificate gives his fathers name as John Webb a Tinsmith. There is evidently a link with Fobbing - help please.