Can anyone help

[Neale1961]

I found this newspaper clipping which seeem to confirm all the information that has been found.

William WEBB's half-sister Eliza LANGLEY married Eli WHADON in 1862, this makes Eli WHADON Eli WEBB's uncle.

Daisy, An interesting newspaper article. It ties things together nicely, but then poses more questions.

We can only speculate …..
The Webb family was last in contact with Uncle Eli Weadan and his wife Eliza Langley in 1877 when they were living in Bristol. William Webb deserted from the army in 1877 – so did the family seek refuge with William Weadan and Eliza for a short time then?
        Why try to make contact 14 years later in 1891? Was it simply to let them know that the Webbs were living in Scotland? Must have been more important than that. Was it to let Eliza Weadan know that her brother, William Webb had died?

[JacobusV]

Hi

Being a member of Ancestry and having done a DNA test, when I added the Langley and other Webbs on my tree a whole load of relatives started to show up on my tree with DNA matches, it seems there are still a lot of relatives living in or around the Holcombe area as well as Monmouthshire.

J

[Neale1961]

Yes Jacobus, I'm sure there is plenty more to research and interesting things to discover about the Webbs and Langleys of Somerset.
Maybe LucyWebb, your relative, will be interested too.

[Daisypetal]

Maybe Eli didn't want to live in Scotland with his mother and James BARRATT and hoped he could go and live with the WHEDON's. I wish we could find them in 1881, I'm wondering if Eliza left William rather than him leaving her.

Daisy

[Neale1961]

I have tried all sorts of options to find them in the 1881 census, but nothing. 
I wonder if they went to Ireland to be with Ellen’s parents for a while.
There were no more children after George in 1877, so I suspect that Ellen and William may not have spent much time together.


I don’t think Eli would really remember his Uncle and Aunt Weadon from 1877. He would have been just a wee three year old. There must have been some reason that the Webb family wanted to make contact after such a long time. We know that Ellen couldn't write, so perhaps Eli was making contact on behalf of his mother.

[JacobusV]

It could have been the case that being the wife of a soldier with two young children was too much to bear and they parted. I believe it's likley not unheard of, even nowadays.

J

[JacobusV]

I have been in touch with Lucy, she is my father's first cousins granddaughter. My Great Grandfather Eli is her great great grandfather.

J

[JacobusV]

There is another mystery connected to the Webbs that I'm keen to explore as well. My Great Grandfathers wife was a Jessie Hill. Her Mother was a Jessie Anne Mcgregor, she was born in Perth, as was her father Robert Mcgregor, born in Perth, Scotland 13th July 1838. His ancestry is a point of contention, some beleive he is a descendent of John Murray Mcgregor 5th Cheif of the Children of the mist, 1st of Glencarnoch. This is a pretty juicy one to get my teeth into.

J