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Origin / History of the Webb Name

Recorded as Webb, Webbe, Webber and Webster, this Olde English pre-7^th Century surname derives from the word ‘web’, meaning to weave.  Originally a male occupational name, the term ‘webbe’ referred specifically to a male weaver and later ‘webster’ to a female weaver; although this distinction was not always made in medieval English.  In the pipe rolls of the county of Suffolk, we find Osbert Webbe 1221 and Alice la Webbe, in the rolls of the borough of Colchester 1327.  The following quotation from the famous medieval book of social history ‘Piers Plowman’ reads: ‘My wife was a webbe and woollen cloth made’.  Later church recordings of the post medieval period include: Mary Webb, the daughter of George Webb, christened 1550 at the church of St. Mary Woolnoth, London; and Mary Webbe christened 1566, at the church of St. Benet Fink, London.  The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Alger se Webba c1100, in the ‘Olde English Byname Register’.

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