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Hi Ruth. My Coddingtons are from London - several emigrated to NZ and Australia in the 1920's. Am not aware yet of any that went to Canada or the USA. Have only just started getting into this line though!
Regards Sally
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Hi Sally: You didn't mention if you wanted Coddington's from London England or London Ontario. I am from Ontario Canada and have a few Coddington's in my files Ruth
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A Gedcom is the universal standard for exporting and importing genealogical data. It's a structured text (ascii) file, and the various bits of info are identified by tags (hundreds of them). All the rootsweb files you see on the web, for example, were uploaded by individuals to rootsweb as "gedcoms." If you accumulate enough info, eventually you'll opt for a computer program to keep track of it all, of which there are only two really good ones, Master genealogist and Legacy. By "good" I mean capable of recording and sourcing information as a professional genealogist would. Almost all programs, however, use their own proprietary formats, and to interconvert, gedcoms.
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Thank you for the response - I did wonder as I couldn't see any recent communication. After I posted the message I started looking at Roots Web (which was a bit confusing) and originally I had thought that Merlyn may be related but soon realised that he was trying to put together as much info on Coddington's as possible so not sure if he came from a UK line.
As I am new to this can you explain what a gedcom is???
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Jonathan - I still live in the UK and my family mostly lived around Greenwich which is London but in those days was classed as Kent (it becomes confusing looking at censuses etc as the boroughs kept moving around). I have only recently started researching this line as I have been busy with my father's line which is the Wesleys. Some of the family moved to Devon/Cornwall in the far south of England and as I said many moved to New Zealand and Australia. I am not aware so far of anyone moving to the USA but don't have much info before about 1800. I thnk there are a couple of male descendents still in the UK from our line but I am not currently in touch with them. As I said I have recently got in touch with my mother's cousin who is in his 80's and lives in NZ and I know there are some males there. If you want to communicate off line feel free to email me at sallye(a)carnelianassociates.com.
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Sally,
Great to hear from you. Let's communicate more off the list. When you say London, England, so you mean anciently, in which you are probably of the Surrey branch, which is Stockdale's (the earliest American immigrant), and which, as near as I can tell, left nearly no descendants in England. At least, searches of the earliest records in on-line english databases show few to zero Coddingtons in or around Surrey. Lincolnshire (incl. Nottinghamshire) and Cheshire Coddingtons prospered. Two kinds of DNA tests, one for males (y chromosome), the other for females (mitochondria). Either follows the direct line of that gender backwards. As this is a Coddington surname board, we'd need samples from males.
Somewhat off-topic, but in an attempt to spark discussion, here are the data on non-Stockdale Coddington descendants from the decennial American censuses:
For the surnames Coddington/Codington/Cuddington/Corrington, etc.
The 1850 Census lists 14 heads born outside the U.S. out of 260 households.
The 1860 Census lists 12 heads born outside the U.S. out of 373 households.
The 1870 Census lists 16 heads born outside the U.S. out of 453 households.
The 1880 Census lists 8 heads born outside the U.S. out of 401 households.
Life being as tenuous as it was back then, most of those probably died out. In compiling these data, I didn't see much indication that the 1850 households, for example, begot the 1860's 70's or 80's. Rather a smattering of singletons, almost always males, in each census.
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Merlyn passed away 13 Mar 2002, of emphysema. I have tried to take over where he left off--e.g. an interest in American Coddingtons generally, but I don't include english or aussie coddingtons in my database. I have a late, but not the latest version of his database. He posted the latest just before he died, but Rootsweb will not provide a gedcom to anyone other than immediate family.
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Surnames: Coddington
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Jonathan
Have only just come on to this site and saw your email. I am descended from the Coddington's in London England and I don't know how many there are in New Zealand and Australia but some of them are from my line. Several of my grandmother's siblings went over around about the 1920's. I have recently got in touch with them through the Genes Connected site and have been corresponding and exchanging info via email.
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Does anyone know the contact details for Merlyn Coddington. Have just found some info on the Family Tree project which is for my family (the Coddington's in London) and have tried emailing Merlyn at his aol email on this site MLCODD98 @aol.com but have twice had it bounced back. Would love to get in touch with him as I am also in touch with the family in New Zealand. I can be contacted at sallye(a)carnelianassociates.com
Many thanks