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For earlier history of this family see BODDY in North Yorkshire
3. [BODD671] John Boddy (born 1820, son of Thomas Boddy & Sarah formerly Harrison), was apprenticed to John Hutchinson, a shoemaker at Maunby-on-Swale, probably from 1834 to 1841. None of his brothers took up this occupation, and he may have been influenced by his uncle Robert who was a shoemaker at Pickhill. The period 1841-46 would have been the most important in John's life. John completed his apprenticeship, established himself as a shoemaker in Leeds and married Jane Hammond. Sufficient facts are available to suggest that the most likely sequence of events in this 5-year period was as follows.
John was living at Maunby-on-Swale at the time of the June 1841 census and completed his apprenticeship on his 21st birthday later that year. He started work at Skelton-on-Ure, where his friend William James (from Ainderby Quernhow in the parish of Pickhill) was by then also a shoemaker. William's son Stephen James was apprenticed to his brother and lived with him. It seems likely that John was found lodgings at Skelton, either with William James or with [HAMM661] George Duffield Hammond (Jane's father) who lived nearby. William's other son Samuel was also apprenticed to a shoemaker, though exactly whereabouts has not been ascertained. Samuel James completed his apprenticeship in 1844 and at about this time William James, Samuel James and John Boddy all moved to Imperial Street in Leeds. The choice of this address may have been influenced by yet another of William's brothers, George James, who was a tailor already living in Leeds, at Byron Street which was four streets away from Imperial Street. Two other facts must be mentioned, as they could vaguely have had some influence on the move to Leeds. John Boddy's uncle, Christopher Harrison, had been living in the Hunslet area of Leeds since before 1841. He was however a cooper and so his presence in Leeds may not have been relevant. John Hammond, younger brother of the George Duffield Hammond mentioned earlier, was also a shoemaker, and had lived in Leeds between 1827 and 1832, before returning north to Ripon, then Masham, and finally Darlington by 1845.
In December 1844 Samuel James married Elizabeth Hammond (eldest daughter of George Duffield Hammond) at Ripon. Samuel and Elizabeth afterwards lived at Imperial Street, Leeds, for a good number of years. John Boddy, a shoemaker, married (at Leeds, St. Peter, 2nd February 1846) [HAMM672] Jane Hammond (born 1825, see HAMMOND), both of Imperial Street, witnessed by Samuel James (Jane's brother-in-law) and R H Pickard (parish clerk). John and Jane straightaway moved to Concord Street (adjacent to Imperial Street). Around 1857 they moved some distance away to Mulberry Street (renamed Cranberry Street about 1860). John and Jane had eight children as follows:
Sarah Ann (born at 17 Concord Street, 22nd July 1848, baptised at St. Luke's, 15th January 1849 ), married (at Leeds, St. Philip, 23rd November 1872) Edward Gavins, witnessed by Sarah Elizabeth Gavins (Edward's sister);
2. [BODD681] George (born at 38 Concord Street, 6th May 1850, no trace of his baptism), married 1. Sarah Ann Parker, see later;
Thomas (born at 38 Concord Street, 1852), died age 8 (October 1858, buried at Beckett Street Cemetery, 17th October 1858);
John Henry (born at 38 Concord Street, 20th November 1855), died age 18 (31st August 1874, buried at Beckett Street Cemetery, 2nd September 1874);
Ellen (born at Mulberry Street, 1858, baptised at Lincoln Fields, 5th December 1859), married (at Richmond Hill Chapel, 26th December 1881) William Walsh Coulton, witnessed by J S Coulton and Edward Gavins (Ellen's brother-in-law);
Mary Jane (born at 24 Cranberry Street, 29th January 1862, baptised at Richmond Hill, 19th May 1862), married (at Richmond Hill Chapel, 10th August 1885) Andrew [actually Alexander] Britton, witnessed by Emma Britton (Andrew's sister) and Edward Gavins (Mary Jane's brother);
Walter (born at 24 Cranberry Street, 19th March 1864), married (at Richmond Hill Chapel, 27th December 1892) Alice Ann Dyson, witnessed by Lucy Dyson (Alice Ann's sister) and Joseph Goldthorp;
William Herbert (born at 24 Cranberry Street, 10th February 1870), died age 4 (buried at Beckett Street Cemetery, 30th August 1874).
On the night of the Census in 1861, John Boddy was visiting his parents at Sinderby, together with Christopher Harrison from Hunslet. (Christopher's sister was John's mother.) But what prompted this visit has not come to light. John died (age 54, of a congested liver) at 22 Cranberry Street (23rd August 1875, buried at Beckett Street Cemetery, Leeds, 25th August 1875). At the 1911 Census, Jane was living with her married daughter, Mary Jane Britton, at 2 Cross Aysgarth Mount, Leeds. Jane died (age 85, of rheumatoid arthritis and heart failure) at Cross Aysgarth Mount (10th February 1912, buried at Beckett Street Cemetery, 14th February 1912).
2. [BODD681] George Boddy (born 1850, son of John) enlisted (1870) in the 68th Light Infantry.
see GEORGE BODDY for continuation