Family: John DODD / Judith WORGER (F1515)

m. 1 Oct 1721


Family Information

  • John DODDFather | Male
    John DODD

    Born     
    Christened  10 Jan 1692  Wye, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  Bef 17 Jan 1772   
    Buried     
    Married  1 Oct 1721  [1]  Hinxhill, Kent, England  [1] Find all individuals with events at this location
    Father  John DODD | F1517 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Anne AUSTIN | F1517 Group Sheet 

    Judith WORGERMother | Female
    Judith WORGER

    Born     
    Christened  23 Jun 1698  Hinxhill, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died     
    Buried  15 Dec 1750  Wye, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Father  Robert WORGER | F1518 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Judith SUTTON | F1518 Group Sheet 

    Henry ^ DODDChild 1 | Male
    Henry ^ DODD

    Born     
    Christened  28 Jul 1722  Ashford, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died     
    Buried  21 May 1723  Ashford, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location

    Judith ^ DODDChild 2 | Female
    Judith ^ DODD

    Born     
    Christened  28 Jun 1723  Ashford, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  Bef 1738   
    Buried     

    John DODDChild 3 | Male
    John DODD

    Born  Abt 1726   
    Died     
    Buried  20 Jan 1751  Pluckley, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Katherine WALKER | F1500 
    Married  21 Sep 1748  Pluckley, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location

    Thomas DODDChild 4 | Male
    Thomas DODD

    Born     
    Christened  27 Mar 1728  Ashford, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died     
    Buried     

    Austin DODDChild 5 | Male
    Austin DODD

    Born     
    Christened  23 Mar 1730  Ashford, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  20 Apr 1812  Ashford, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried  26 Apr 1812  Ashford, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Mary WAISTELL | F1519 
    Married  8 June 1768 (ML)  Hothfield, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Elizabeth COOK | F1520 
    Married  9 Oct 1769  Ashford, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location

    William ^ DODDChild 6 | Male
    William ^ DODD

    Born     
    Christened  17 Mar 1732  Ashford, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died     
    Buried  23 Jun 1732  Ashford, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location

    Robert DODDChild 7 | Male
    Robert DODD

    Born     
    Christened  11 Jul 1733  Ashford, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  Abt 1769   
    Buried     
    Spouse  Martha BRISSENDEN | F1521 
    Married  15 Jul 1753  Ashford, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location

    Daniel DODDChild 8 | Male
    Daniel DODD

    Born     
    Christened  7 Jul 1736  Ashford, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  Aft 26 Feb 1772   
    Buried     

    Judith DODDChild 9 | Female
    Judith DODD

    Born     
    Christened  19 Jul 1738  Pluckley, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died     
    Buried     

  • Sources 
    1. [S65] Archdeacon's Transcript, Church of England, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), Hinxhill, Kent, England, 1 Oct 1721.
      John Dodd of Wye and Elizabeth Worger of this parish were married by banns.
      There was no Elizabeth Worger christened at Hinxhill. In fact, there was only one family by that surname established at Hinxhill from the time of the marriage of Robert Worger and Judith Sutton on 3 Oct 1683. There was however, a child by the name of Judith Worger that had been christened at Hinxhil to that couple, who, it was found, to never have married nor been buried at Hinxhill.

      All other marriages between the years 1716 and 1725 found over the course of a 16-year search in many parishes throughout east Kent for a John Dodd to any woman have failed to produce any association with a woman named Judith. Two marriages had been strong contenders: the marriage of a Michael Dodd to a Judith at Graveney; and, the marriage of a John Dawson to a Judith Andrew at Ashford. Both marriages had occurred in the correct time span but upon close examination of birthing patterns of children it quickly became apparent that each of these couples were in fact separate from any other husband and wife. A full examination of the christening pattern of the children of John Dawson and Judith Andrew was particularly crucial because of the strong similarity of their names to John Dodd and Judith, then unknown. The christenings of the children of both John Dawson and John Dodd did eventually bisect each other clearly removing any possibility that John Dawson and his wife Judith were John Dodd and his wife Judith.

      Furthermore, in this marriage John Dodd is referred to as having been of Wye which is where he himself had been baptised and where his parents and siblings had also been established. It appears that John and Judith Dodd were among the first of his immediate family to establish themselves at Ashford. The inclusion of children named Robert and Daniel amongst the children of John Dodd and Judith, also suggests that the so-called "Elizabeth" Worger was in fact Judith Worger and that this is the correct marriage. There is also an indication that Judith Worger had an uncle named Thomas Sutton who also settled at Hinxhill around the time of the marriage of Judith's mother, Judith Sutton, to her father, Robert Worger.