Webb family papers and pictorial material, 1830-1968

MLMSS 6678/Box 1
MLMSS 6678/Item 2X

fonds

1830 - 1968

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Photographs

402071

0.67 metres of textual material (1 box, 1 outsize item)

Frederick William Webb (1837-1919) was born in Sydney, the son of John Webb and his wife Mary, nee Bell. He joined the public service as a young man, but is mainly remembered for his position as clerk of the Legislative Assembly, after his appointment in 1888. In 1891 he became secretary to the National Australasian Convention. He was appointed C.M.G. in 1894.
John Mackenzie Webb was the eldest son of Frederick William Webb. He was born in 1873. His mother, Emily, was his father's second wife, the first having died in childbirth. Emily Webb was the youngest daughter of John Piper Mackenzie. The second and third sons of Frederick William Webb were Dr. Fritz William Webb, who died tragically from typhoid fever at the age of 27, and Edgar Henry Webb, the ornithologist.
John Mackenzie Webb's two sons were Victor Radcliff Webb (1903-1968) and Lance-Corporal D. R. Webb, who died in France in 1918.

BOX 1
1894 - 1895; correspondence of Frederick William Webb during the time that he was Clerk of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
1832 - 1968; Scrapbook compiled by various family members. It includes newscuttings relating to the National Australasian Convention 1891, of which F. W. Webb was the Secretary. It contains birth, death and marriage certificates, obituaries, family photographs, house photographs, cuttings about social events, correspondence between F. W. Webb and parliamentarians, school reports from Sydney Grammar School, Sydney University exam results, family history notes in the hand of John Mackenzie Webb, and ornithological notes about bower birds and minah birds in the hand of Edgar Henry Webb.
2 March 1891; Roll as signed by delegates of the National Australasian Convention, Parliament House, Sydney. This is the personal copy of Frederick William Webb. It includes a copy of the proceedings.
1880; Lett's Australasian Pocket Diary and Almanac. Annotated by F. W. Webb.
Date unknown; Notebook of F. W. Webb. This contains newscuttings and verses in his hand.
1903; Old Times, Vol. 1 nos. 1 - 4, Sydney.
1824 - 1935; New South Wales Parliamentary Record, Twelfth Edition.
22 May 1906; A Souvenir of the Celebration of the Jubilee of Responsible Government in New South Wales.
1913-1946; financial records of John Mackenzie Webb, including a copy of his father's will.
Date unknown; notebook of John Mackenzie Webb relating to family history. It includes a transcript of a letter written by Mrs Elizabeth Hawkins about her family's trip over the mountains to Bathurst in 1822

ITEM 2X
1894, 1901-1904; academic certificates which were awarded to Fritz William Webb, and letters of recommendation from various doctors

PICTORIAL MATERIAL
Item 01
[Portrait of] Colonel William Bell, 98 Regt [i.e. Regiment] ... died Hobart, Tasmania, 2 April 1872 ... brother of the wife of my grandfather John Webb

Item 02
Album of photographs of the Webb family and friends including scenes from Sydney, New South Wales, and overseas travel

Item 03
Portraits of the Webb family

Item 04
Officers of the Legislative Assembly of N.S.W. 1880-1909 including F.W. Webb and J.M. Webb

Item 05
[Delegates to the Australasian Federation Convention 1891, Sydney]