Wolford and Anneke are bogus and mythe. Please read below and click on links and you will get all your questions answered. Unfortunately there were people who posted false information connecting this "beheaded" Baron Wolford Von Weber to a Casper Weber and his family and it is NOT TRUE. Many have incorporated this Wolford into their database without realizing it is false information. One of the posters was a Ctrience and serious researchers have tried to get this false information off the internet (without success) so other's won't grab and insert into their database.

Read this and click on the links please. This came straight from the Netherlands and is documented. Hopes this helps. Serious Web(b)er reseachers are trying to get the truth out and this bogus info about Wolford corrected. It keeps on going and going and going for years now! Thanks. T

Anneke Jans -Webber connection Myth
Kurtwebber25 (View posts) Posted: 3 Jan 2001 5:06PM

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You will find the genealogy of the Royal House of the Netherlands at this site http://www.parkstad.com/nl/genkh01.html Note there is no connection between William the Silent and the Webber family. There has been several genealogies posted that claim a connection, they are all bogus. Walter Gilbert as some good information on Anneke Jans at this site http://www.otal.umd.edu/~walt/gen/misc-htm/AnnekeFarm1999Map... You might also find this letter from the Central Bureau Of Genealogy in the Netherlands to Virginia (Garrison) Magee. The letter can be found at the following Web site: http://starlite.virtualave.net/tgf/letter.html

Virginia wrote: “This letter was sent to me when I wrote to the Netherlands requesting information on Anneke Jans Webber, daughter of Wolfert Webber, king of Holland. The Letter reads as follows:

Dear Madam, With disconcerting regularity we receive letters from the U.S.A. in which people ask for more information about Anneke Jans, wrongly called Anneke Jans Webber, and purported to be of Royal blood. This fairy tale - because that in fact is the only apt appellation - had its origin in the literary endeavors of a certain Browning. In 1894 he published a book called "Americans of Royal Descent", (Vol. 3, p. 800) and ever since there have been credulous people who thought themselves to be of Royal extraction, or rich, or both. According to this book, Anneke Jans' pedigree and of her first husband Roelof Janszen as well as her second spouse, the Reverend Bogardus, is no less fascinating than the tales spun about her .Further more, the real story is based on irrefutable, scientific research-results and published by George Olin Zabriskie in the well known magazine "De Halve Maen", issues of October 1972, January, April, July and October 1973. In these same articles many facts about the Webber-family are given as well. We advise you to request copies of these articles at: The Holland Society of New York, 122 East 58th St., New York 10022.”