Weber/Webber Families of Canada

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The Webber and the Acheson families of Canada have a long, long history, going back to the early 1800's of Alsace and of Ireland. This website is a tribute to our ancestors who worked, married, migrated and bore children, to make our future generations enjoy kinship.

Please explore this website and enjoy all the fruit of our family tree. Click on the "Webber Families" and the "Acheson Families" links at the top of the homepage and then follow your line.

This website contains the family tree, with names, births, marriages, deaths and family links.

Living individuals have their information privatized and visitors can only see the surname and initials. Registered users with a password may have more access and editing privileges. Don't have an account but you are a family member? Click on Login and follow the 'Register for New User Account' link.

Webber and Acheson Origins

The Webber/Weber Family

The origin of the surname Weber is obscured in antiquity, but it is likely derived from the German noun meaning "weaver". Our Weber ancestors have been traced back to Alsace, a small region that borders on Germany and France, and has been claimed and conquered by each side over centuries of wars.

Our earliest record is for a Jacob Weber, who lived in the Bas-Rhin district of Alsace in the 1600's and his son Michael Weber. The Canadian branch of the Webber family, with Joseph Weber, arrived in about 1860's in Quebec, then settled in Ontario after 1890. His son Emil Weber migrated to Alberta in 1902, where he anglicized the family surname to Webber during World War One.

Above image: Emil "Rusey" Weber











The Acheson Family

The Acheson family in Canada has roots going back to the Ulster area of Northern Ireland. Starting with the oldest known patriarch, Weir Acheson of County Tyrone, Ireland, we follow the line of Joseph Acheson, who brings his family to Perth county in Upper Canada, now Ontario. His son, Alexander, marries Sarah Braden Miller and they head out to the unsettled west, to Manitoba to raise their family.

The saga continues with life in the prairies of southern Manitoba in the Mennonite settlement of Rosenfeld. There, their first daughter, Sadie meets a handsome young man of Alsace, France origin, Joseph "Rusey" Weber, lacross player and grain trader.

Our family line finally treks one more journey, to Calgary Alberta, where the Webber clan takes roots and prospers.

Joseph Miller was 31 when he left County Londonderry, North Ireland for Canada's Huron Tract in 1846. Bringing 5 children with him, he and Sarah Henry had 8 more children in Upper Canada, including our great grandmother, Sarah Braden Miller, who married great grandfather Alexander Acheson.

Our great-great-grandmother Sarah Henry was the oldest daughter of Robert Henry and Sarah Braden, of Altnagelon Townland, Glendermott Parish, in County Londonderry, and her new home in Canada was to be across the road from her parents and siblings.

Above image: Sarah "Sadie" Acheson


Purpose and Value

This website is a tribute to the ancestors and the family lines of the Webbers of Alsace, who finally arrived in Canada so long ago.

We hope the extended families continue to meet every three years.

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For the privacy of those that have contributed to the family lines, we have hidden the given names of any person known to be alive.

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Management

This site is administered by Jim Benedict and his son, Jason, both living in Calgary, Alberta.

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