Albert E Webb

[tejjy]

I found an Albert E Webb on the passenger list of the Ortona (see attached newspaper clipping dated Jan 4, 1900; the official list has the Albert).

But I cannot find any subsequent trace of him in Australia; no death certificate & no outgoing passenger lists. Nor did I find that he married anybody or sired any children. I suppose it's possible he hung around until he was able to fly out, but what I'm really hoping is that I've made some rookie error.

(There was an Albert Edward Webb, butcher, in Tasmania at about the same time, but he was born there).

Any advice, suggestions or brainwaves appreciated. He MIGHT have been my great-grandfather...or again, he might not

[wivenhoe]

"He MIGHT have been my great-grandfather"

You are researching the origins of your grandfather?

What do you know about your grandfather?.....place of birth?....place of marriage?....place of death?

Can you give the details you have about him.

[tejjy]

Actually, i know the origins of my grandfather (born Jan. 1895 in Brighton, UK, father Albert Edward Webb, butcher, mother born Mary May Todd). But my grandfather always said he didn't have a father, and in the 1901 census grandfather was living with his sister and mother, who described herself as head of house & independent means. It looks like great-grandpa did a runner… This query is a promising candidate, as it would explain why i can't find him in the 1901 (or subsequent) census, but very speculative at this stage, It was a common name.;

[PatLac]

Do you have any other information about him, date or place of birth, occupation?

Could he be this Commercial Traveller in 1901?

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9DQ-FZ5?treeref=P3KY-HNB&lang=en

[maddys52]

There is an Albert Edward WEBB died in Victoria in 1949 aged 78, born Wells, Somerset. Is this a possibility?
Parents Alfred WEBB and Elizabeth (nee BIRKIN).

Modified to add:
Death notices:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/206067200

[PatLac]

I was just looking at his birth record 

WEBB, ALBERT  EDWARD     SPARROW 
GRO Reference: 1870  J Quarter in WELLS  Volume 05C  Page 610

[maddys52]

Another death in Victoria - Albert Edward WEBB aged 72, in 1938, born London. Parents Charles WEBB and Ann (nee NICHOLLS).

His death notice:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12059005


Unfortunate that it is a common name.

[maddys52]

This would be the wife of the Albert Edward WEBB who died in 1949 - Annie Laura, she died in 1940.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/206067200

Modified to add:
I think this couple seems unlikely - their son Eric died in 1981 aged 83. He was born in Coventry. Parents Albert Edward WEBB and Annie Laura (nee AYRES).

Eric Norman WEBB birth registration Coventry (6d/580) Sept qtr 1898.

[PatLac]

I suppose this is the commercial traveller...

Gorell Barnes, a case was heard in which Mrs. Amy Mary Edwards- Webb, a nurse at the Royal United Hospital, Bath, petitioned for a divorce from Mr. Albert Edwards-Webb, a commercial traveller, stated to be living at Southsea, formerly of Bristol, on the ...

Published: Friday 22 February 1907
Newspaper: Somerset Standard
County: Somerset, England