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Tim Boddington Webmaster
I am always interested in your
The online database was last updated on
14 November, 2011 |
I first put these pages up on the web in Spring 2000 in the
hope that there would be a few interested souls out there who would perhaps
send me a message of interest.
I could never have guessed what an avalanche of information would come
my way and continues to do so. I am most grateful to all those who have
sent me the most amazing collections of interesting information that
must have taken an enormous amount of time to research and discover.
Great numbers of family lines have come to light and I have tried to
include them all on the family tree.
One of the most striking things about these people is that almost all
of them know that their families originate from Warwickshire, Northamptonshire,
Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Wiltshire or Gloucestershire - in a broad
agricultural strip of the east and south Midlands. These were clearly
hotbed centres of Boddington, and Bodington, life, possibly for many
centuries - see origins
of the name.
Not surprisingly there are very many loose ends - so many family lines
(see family structure for the main lines)
that are probably related somewhere if only we had a few extra bits of
information. So, please, keep sending me your lines, and I will keep
adding them into the chart.
These pages are for the benefit of the Boddington family - if
you're a Boddington, no matter where in the world, then these
pages are for you! The simple objective is to bring together in one place
all Boddingtons,
their genealogy, history, and achievements, to meet each other through
the wonder of modern communications and to share in each others interests.
In December 2007 I added a couple of lines of Bodingtons -
the one D Bodingtons -
and in June 2009 I have added over 470 people to the one D Bodington lines
and given them a page set of their own. There must be a number of variations
in the spelling which are one and the same family so perhaps by including
lines from these we might just find a link somewhere!
This page will provide the focal point for all people with the family
name of Boddington (or Bodington), as well as
those ladies who were born a Boddington but lost the name on marriage.
And, of course, those whose mothers or grand mothers were Boddingtons.
This page is provided by Tim Boddington - that's me above, interestingly
one of at least four Tim Boddingtons that I now know of although
to be truthful Timothy is my second name. I'm really a Samuel Boddington.
I am a member of a large family of Boddingtons,
mostly living in the UK so far as I know. While searching the internet
and as a result of this family page I have become aware of the large
number of Boddingtons spread
out around the globe. Some are or may be related to me, many are not,
or at least not obviously so. My own family tree has been drawn back
250 years or so and there are other individuals who may be related to
my family but are not proven to be. There are many other Boddingtons who
do not seem to be connected with us but, in the dim and distant past,
may well be.
The best known Boddington family is that of brewing fame. A Pedigree
of that family was compiled in 1889 by Reginald Stewart Boddington.
This pedigree presently provides a large number of the names in this
web site. You may wish to go directly to Henry Boddington,
brewer. His autobiographical history, Record
of the Life of Henry Boddington,
is also available. Oddly, at the outset I knew nothing about Reginald
Stewart; he didn't appear on his 1889 family tree. However, in 2003 and
early 2004 further information of his came to light that put him into
some context with details of his own family. Many thanks to Warren Lloyd,
John Chapple and John Breese.
Search the Boddington family web site: Find it quick!
Boddington is not a very frequent name. The possibility exists
that we are all related - some of the recent discoveries in DNA analysis,
now available to the public, might even prove it one day, one way or
the other. It should be possible, if we all pool our family information,
to build up a family tree that really shows who we are and who we are
related to.
If your name is Boddington or Bodington, or, ladies, if you or your mother's or grand mother's maiden name was Boddington or Bodington, then I would like to hear from you - please send me an email right now just to introduce yourself.
My genealogical database is
built with a now obsolete package called EasyTree but which has the
useful facility to be able to create basic web pages direct from the
database. These pages are processed further by a program of my own design
- see below. I have included so far most of the information that I have
except the individuals who have written to me without their personal
family information. This is simply to avoid having numbers of single
unattached records.
Major improvements
From
20 August 2009 I have implemented a significant update to the web
site by re-processing the EasyTree output and reformatting the tree pages
to improve the look and ease of use. I have also added back links from
the person pages to the relevant family pages, an essential feature missing
from EasyTree. Further, I have improved the handling of living children
and widows/widowers to prevent the names being displayed anywhere.
From 25 October 2009 I have implemented further improvements to the
refinement of the data on the pages as well as some minor improvements
in the display on the family pages.
I
have also added almost 300 new individuals, all of whom are descendants
or spouses, or relatives of spouses, of Charles
BODDINGTON (1830-1908).
It was he who emigrated to Toronto in Canada in the 1860s and from whom
almost every Boddington in North America is descended. This is by far
the biggest, most complete tree on the site. More than half the family
are still living and although in my database are not eligible to go on
the web site (see below for the reason). Let me thank Lynn
Coulter for the
brilliant family history, Melody Island Memories,
she has researched and written about this extensive family, albeit with
the help and support of many others. It is a truly wonderful document
and every family in the Charles BODDINGTON tree should have a copy.
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January 2010 - further improvements to the web pages have been implemented
as well as the correction of a couple of errors in page generation.
28 December 2010 - big cleanup of minor errors; further correction to
family web pages to properly display marriage and divorce details. Added
a 'key' page to explain the short codes used.
Known problem ...
I have now resolved and corrected a problem in the Source
numbering. The corrected source links have been uploaded on 9th January
2011.
Security Policy
I have reviewed the present
security situation (2006) and have concluded that it is no longer safe
to publish any information on living persons. This is due to the upsurge
in identity theft and associated fraud. I will continue to maintain
basic information on living persons in my database but this will not
be transferred to the web site. In the absence of specific information
a person will be assumed to be deceased approximately 100 years after
their known birth or approximately 120 years after the birth of their
parents. Where the individual is deceased I will try to publish as much
information as is available in order to complete the genealogical record.
Where I find a relationship between individuals who do not know of each other I will obtain agreement from each to disclose their identity and contact information to the other. The same will apply to those found to be researching in the same family line.
One of the joys of a web site such as this is the regularity with which it brings together people who are related but who didn't know of each other before. Three or four times each year I manage to bring people together with usually distant lines of connection - cousins several times removed.
In September 2004 the site achieved its greatest success yet. A chap who was adopted at birth was looking for his mother and asked if I could help. By great good fortune a lady with the name of his natural mother had emailed me four years before and after sensitive enquiry it was confirmed that she was indeed his mother. They are now getting to know one another and making up for those 35 missing years.
Help
I am frequently asked for help on starting out on the search for ancestors but there are far better sources than I. Try looking for help pages on the web such as Genealogy Learning Center
which is full of practical advice on the subject.
