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Great Grandparents

George Thomas Webb  was born 1861 in Ticehurst, Sussex, England, and died 1915. He married Elizabeth Hillman 12 Apr 1881 in Saint John The Baptist, Lewes, Sussex, England, daughter of William Hillman and Mary Green. She was born 1855 in Ringmer, Sussex, England, and died 1906 in Lewes, Sussex, England. He then married Rose Ann Mills 1914 in Lewes, Sussex, England. She was born in Warwick, England, and died in Sussex, England.

In 1871 George was living with his parents in Spring Gardens, St John under the Castle, Sussex, England. By 1881 he had moved to South Street in South Malling and was working as a Railway Pointsman and shunter. In 1881 and 1891 he was living in the cottages by the Beddingham Level Crossing near Glynde in Sussex. Here he had the important job of a Railway Pointsman. Sadly the level crossing is now being renovated and the cottages destroyed.

George and Elizabeth had 5 boys and 3 girls during their marriage, they were:

George Ambrose Webb born 1882

William Charles Webb born 1884

Albert Henry Webb born 1886

Eleanor Elizabeth Webb born 1888

Charles Webb born 1889

Frederick Edwin Webb born 1893

Fanny Webb born 1896

Susan Mary Webb born 1897