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Thomas BODDINGTON
Notes:Thomas BODDINGTON was born in the tiny village
of Carlton, in the fertile valley of the Great Ouse in Bedfordshire. Like his
father before him, he would have been an agricultural worker employed by one of
the wealthy country estates or manor farms in the area. He married Mary WELLS
"of Odell" in the church of St. Mary the Virgin in Carlton. He died at the ripe
old age of 79 having fathered eleven children. The entry in the Church Register
of Burials reads:..." Tho Boddington, sen., in the 80th year of his
age".
Thomas married Mary WELLS on 24 Nov 1659 in the Church Of St. Mary The Virgin, Carlton, Bedfordshire, England.1 (Mary WELLS was born in 1639 in Odell, Bedfordshire, England, died in 1676 in Carlton, Bedfordshire, England and was buried on 19 Jan 1676 in the Church Of St. Mary The Virgin, Carlton, Bedfordshire, England 1.)
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Sources
1 Extract from transcripts of the original Register of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1554-1812, Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Carlton, Bedfordshire (County Record Office, Bedfordshire & Luton). Rec. Date: 9 Dec 2006, Cit. Date: 9 Dec 2006.