Surname: DODD
Given Name(s): William

Occupation(s): Shoemaker/Jobbing Smith/Blacksmith

Birth Details
Birth County,
Region, Province: Warwickshire
Birth Country: England, UK
Birth Date: 1808

Death Details
Death Town: Mt Barker
Death State/Territory: South Australia
Death Country: Australia
Death Date: 1880

Immigration Details
Air/Port Landed: Port Adelaide
Ship/Plane: Buckinghamshire
Year Arrived: 1839

Surname: WALLBANK
Given Name(s): Mary

Birth Details
Birth Town: Atherstone
Birth County, Region, Province: Warwickshire
Birth Country: England, UK
Birth Date: 1804

Death Details
Death Town: Salisbury
Death State/Territory: South Australia
Death Country: Australia
Death Date: 1889

Immigration Details
Air/Port Landed: Port Adelaide
Ship/Plane: Buckinghamshire
Year Arrived: 1839

Family Stories

Life in Australia:

William's application to migrate shows that he was a shoemaker and jobbing smith and the family lived at Windsor Street, Leamington. On arrival in South Australia, they stayed at the Emigration Depot until accommodation and employment could be arranged. Sadly, whilst there, their twin daughters, Eliza and Mary who had been born a few months prior to their departure, died within a week of each other. For the next 18 months the family lived on the Adelaide Plains whilst William had formed a partnership in a blacksmithery business with Messrs Ockenden and Palmer in Grenfell Street in the city. The blacksmith trade covered a much wider sphere of operation than does the term today. Farriering, of course, was of major importance but at that time most farm implements and tools plus gate hinges and fastenings were hammered and wrought into shape on the anvil by skilled tradesmen who often satisfied their artistic aspirations in the fabrication of excellent oranamental wrought ironware. The partnership was dissolved on 22nd June, 1840 and about this time William and Mary moved their family to Mt Barker where he engaged in "agricultural pursuits". The South Australian Almanac of 1849 lists William as living in the Hundred of Macclesfield, where he owned 48 acres of land. Later in 1869 he is listed as a blackmsith, with premises at Walker Street, Mt Barker. William and Mary were Primitive Methodists (Wesleyans) and William was one of the original trustees of the Mt Barker Methodist Church. He died of paralysis aged 72 and was buried at Mt Barker. After William's death, Mary lived with her daughter, Bessie at Salisbury. William's grave cannot be located, but Mary passing is commemorated on a headstone in a graveyard in Church Street where the Salisbury Primitive Methodist Church once stood.

You and Your Family:

At the time of writing (1999), Keith is operating a business, Dodd & Young Human Resource Consultants. He is keenly interested in military history, and together with our son, Kane, trekked the Kokoda trail, Papua New Guinea, last August. Hayley and Kane are studying at university and I am working part-time as a school secretary and devoting most of my spare time to family history research.

Life Before Australia:

There are two Dodd family bibles, treasured heirlooms belonging to family members in Stansbury, South Australia. Oral family history recalls that William had wanted to be a preacher but his parents were too poor to support him through ministerial training. However, the following is inscribed in one of the bibles: "William Dodd, from his sister Charlotte Dodd, a a present for the pulpit, November 15th 1847". It is thought that William was the son of a labourer, also named William Dodd, who died in 1847 at Brailes. William senior's wife, Mary was listed as a pauper on the 1851 census at Grove End Farm, which still exists today. The following entry appears in "Tracing Your Ancestors in Warwickshire" under BRAILES: "Tragedy struck the parish in 1876-1877 when 37 children died of diptheria". Grandchildren of William senior and Mary, Katie Louisa and William George Spicer, aged 4 and 7 respectively, were among the victims.Mary Wallbank was the daughter of Richard Wallbank and Elizabeth Portman, who married in 1781 at Kidderminster, Worcestershire. Their 9 children were born at Coleshill and Atherstone, Warwickshire and it is likely the family were involved with milling at Coleshill.

Descendants

Children
DODD, William Jabez 1 DODD, Charlotte 2 DODD, Mary 3
DODD, Eliza 4 DODD, Caleb 5 DODD, Elizabeth 6

Grandchildren
DODD, Albert James 1 DODD, Alfred Caleb 1 DODD, Arthur Allan 1
DODD, Charlotte Ann 1 DODD, Eliza 1 DODD, Elsie Emily 1
DODD, Florence Lucy Maud 1 DODD, Jabez Edward 1 DODD, Lydia Gould 1
DODD, Mary 1 DODD, Selma Sarah 1 DODD, Thurzar Ann 1
DODD, Walter 1 DODD, William 1

Great Grandchildren
DODD, Edward Gilmore 1 DODD, Foster Lindsay 1 DODD, Jabe Gilmore 1
DODD, Leslie Hugh 1 DODD, Norman Walter Gilmore 1

Great Great Grandchildren
DODD, Alan Jabe Bona 1 DODD, Joyce Bona 1

Great Great Great Grandchildren
DODD, David Gilmore 1 DODD, Diane Elizabeth 1 DODD, Keith Hugh 1

Great Great Great Great Grandchildren
DODD, Hayley Sharon 1 DODD, Kane Michael 1

NB: Superscript behind each descendant name represents the lineage number of that descendant.
This family information was last updated by GAIL DODD on the 23 December, 1998.