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     Her married name was Riches. Rebecca Webb was born on 8 September 1794 at Ingham, Norfolk, England. She married James Riches, son of William Riches and Mary Hogg, on 14 October 1819 at Stoke Holy Cross, Norfolk, England; Witnesses Jas Garford. Rebecca Webb died on 6 April 1871 at Attleborough, Norfolk, England, at age 76.

     Convict Richard Webb was born on 4 March 1795 at Norwich, Norfolk, England. He was christened on 15 March 1795 at St. Julian's Church, Norwich, Norfolk, England. Hewas transported in 1813 on the convict transport ship 'General Hewitt' from England to New South Wales, Australia. He was convict on 14 February 1814as a boy of 17. He had been found guilty of the burglary of the house of one Mr John Butler, a shopkeeper at Barney, in the county of Norfolk and condemned to be hanged. He was reprieved and his sentence changed to life transportation to the colony of New South Wales. On 15th September 1817, he was charged with being in Parramatta without a pass and was sentenced to be confined in a cell for one week, with no mitigation. 1818 found him working as a labourer for John Blaxland.
Richard married his employee, Johanna (Hannah) Mocklar, nee Wilkinson, the widow of Matthew Mocklar on the 4th Sep 1826. He was granted a conditional pardon in 1834 and received a land grant of 24.5 perches in 1823. This is the green area marked with "1" on the map of Parramatta in 1857.
Richard and Hannah built a large brick and stone house in Parramatta in the late 1830's, this house being mentioned in the 1841 Census. The land this house stood on was a grant to Hannah after her first husband died. The red rectangle on the map denotes this house. Richard built his first timber yard behind the house and worked as a timber yard man. He also helped his brother in law, Thomas Wilkinson, clear his 40 acre property at Castle Hill and accepted the timber as payment for his services, this being plausible with his business as a timber merchant. Richard worked as a Timber yard man and Labourer while Hannah managed a shop the couple had.
Richard bought and leased additional land allotments in Parramatta and then started buying farms, firstly at Pennant Hills, where he bought 5 adjoining over the next nine years, then the Castle Hill and North Rocks areas. He also received a Crown grant of thirty acres.
Richard received an absolute pardon in 1841.

His will lists land and buildings in Phillip and Factory Streets, Parramatta, Land in Church Street as well as the House and a total of eight farms in Pennant Hills and North Rocks. He arrived 14 February 1814 in Australia from England on the convict transport ship 'General Hewitt'. He married Johannah Wilkinson on 4 September 1826. Convict Richard Webb died on 2 October 1881 at Church Street, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia, at age 86. He was buried circa 3 October 1881 at St. John's Church of England Cemetery, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia.

     Richard Webb was born on 18 July 1826 at Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. He married Eliza Best, daughter of Thomas Best and Mary Beckett, on 28 January 1851 at Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. Richard Webb died on 12 October 1884 at Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia, at age 58.

     Her married name was Bowman. Ruby Selena Webb was born on 14 December 1898 at Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. She died on 31 August 1989 at age 90. She was buried circa 2 September 2989 at Northern Suburbs Crematorium, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

     Sarah Webb Sarah and Jane were twins. She was born on 11 November 1835. She died on 13 March 1862 at Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia, at age 26.

     Sarah Webb was born on 16 August 1828 at Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. She died on 4 September 1828 at Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia.

     Her married name was Nichols. Sarah Webb was born on 17 December 1847 at 5 Grove Passage, Hackney, London, England. She was christened on 13 August 1852 at St John Church, Hackney, London, England. She married Henry Rivers Nichols, son of Convict Thomas Lewis Nichols and Mary Ann Vincent, on 14 July 1868 at Tasmania, Australia. Sarah Webb died on 12 May 1928 at New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia, at age 80.

     Her married name was Stafford. Selina Jane Louisa Webb was born on 5 September 1854. She died on 2 June 1927 at Scone, New South Wales, Australia, at age 72.

     William Webb was born between 1743 and 1772. He died between 1797 and 1857.

     William H Webb was born in 1889.

     William Walter Webb was a Bricklayer and a Produce Merchant. He William was a Produce Merchant. Lived in a brick house on the Northern side of Lennox St, Parramatta, which he owned. From the entry in the rates book of 1892, the house stood on the seventh block from the end of Lennox St.
After his mother died in1861 and his father in 1862 he passed into his Grandfather's care and came to live in Parramatta. After leaving school he secured an apprenticeship as a Bricklayer with Messrs. Hart and Lavor, well known builders and contractors of earlier days. He was an accomplished tradesman and, at the time of his death, there were many monuments to his skill to be found in the district. He married Charlotte Selena LEAFE, the daughter of a Parramatta Storekeeper, in 1882. Their first child, Laura Austin, was born in Parramatta in 1883.
He founded the produce business 'William Webb and Co.' at 78 ChurchSt, Parramatta. which, at the time of his death, was extremely prosperous. He took his sons, Albert and Henry, along with his Nephew W.H. Simpson (Son of Albert Simpson and Matilda Webb) as partners in the business. at Lennox Street, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. He was born in 1859 at Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia. He married Charlotte Selena Leafe, daughter of George Leafe and Charlotte Selina Austin, on 20 August 1882 at Wesleyan Church, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. William Walter Webb died on 31 January 1927 at Lennox Street, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. He was buried on 1 February 1927 at Western Road Cemetery, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia.

     Nellie M Webber was born in 1887 at New South Wales, Australia.

     Ella Olive Webberley married Francis John Hursey, son of James Alexander Hursey and Ellen Catherine Smith. Her married name was Hursey. Ella Olive Webberley was born on 25 February 1915 at Mangalore, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 26 July 1969 at Tasmania, Australia, at age 54. She was buried on 29 July 1969 at Dover General Cemetery, Dover, Tasmania, Australia.

     Victor Webberley married Letitia Olive Conlan. Victor Webberley was born on 15 May 1913. He died on 17 July 1953 at age 40.

     Victor Alexander Webberley was born on 18 January 1914 at Mangalore, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 30 May 1985 at age 71.

     Edwin Samuel Webster was born on 22 January 1857 at Tasmania, Australia. He married Rosalie Jane Lucas, daughter of Thomas Lucas and Susannah Brumby, on 23 December 1889 at Tasmania, Australia. Edwin Samuel Webster died on 3 February 1937 at age 80.¹

     Her married name was Quinn. Emily Agness Webster was born in 1858 at Tasmania, Australia.¹ She was christened on 8 May 1859 at Tasmania, Australia.² She married Richard Quinn, son of John Quinn, in 1883. Emily Agness Webster died on 21 March 1939 at Tasmania, Australia.² She was buried on 23 March 1939 at Cornelian Bay Cemetery and Crematorium, Tasmania, Australia.²