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John Webster 
Born: March 3, 1857 Place: Melbourne 
Died: July 3, 1927 Place: Bayswater 
Father: Israel (James) Webster
Spouse: Mary Jane Keam
Marriage Date: October 14, 1885 Place: Presbyterian Manse, Avoca
Born: July 12, 1864 Place: Elmhurst
Died: 1945 Place: Surrey Hills

Children

(1) Fanny Webster Born: 1880 Died: 1884 Place: Melbourne East (2) Samuel Webster  Born: 1882Died: 1882  Age at Death: 4 days (3) Lawrence John Webster  Born: December 25, 1984 Place: Glenpatrick, Victoria  Died: January 17, 1975 (4) Frances Webster  Born: June 24, 1886 Place: Elmhurst Died: June 25, 1886 Place: Elmhurst  Buried: June 1886 Place: Glenpatrick Cemetery, Victoria  Age at Death: 1 day (5) Isaac Oswald Webster  Born: March 22, 1988 Place: Glenpatrick  Death: April 25, 1915 Place: Killed in action, Gallipoli Details of Death: Lance Corporal Oswald Webster 871, 6th Bn, Australian Infantry. 26

 (6) Frederick Henry Webster 
Born: September 8, 1890 Place: GlenpatrickDied: October 22, 1976

(7) Mary Olive Webster 
Born: September 4, 1882 
Died: July 23, 1940 Place: Ringwood

(8) Arthur Albert Webster
Born: October 9, 1894
Died: January 19, 1973 Place: Croydon
Buried: 1973 Place: Box Hill, Cemetery, in Frederick Webster Senior's Grave
Note: Victorian Oath Sheet #6114 for Arthur Albert Webster
 
(9) Robert William Alfred Webster
Born: December 25, 1896
Died: February 27, 1901 from what was possibly typhoid.
Buried: 1901 Place: next to the Keam family grave.
Note: Typhoid fever reached epidemic proportions in some areas, especially where the water supply was poor or polluted. Because of their isolation and relatively poor water supply, Glenpatrick and Nowhere Creek were protected, although fear of the disease was always present. Robert William Alfred Webster died in 1901 at the age of 4 years.