Does anyone have a connection with, or an interest in, Isaac BODDINGTON and his family and siblings in Oxfordshire?

Isaac BODDINGTON was born at Oxford, St Peter Le Bailey, Oxfordshire, England. He migrated unassisted to Australia aged 22 with his wife (Emma TALBOY aged 21) on the 'Agenoria' arriving in Sydney, New South Wales, in July 1849. Emma unfortunately died of consumption shortly afterwards on 29 July 1849.

After his arrival, Isaac travelled to Geelong in the Port Phillip District (now, Victoria). Isaac married Elizabeth Ann GLADMAN on 16 March 1852 in Geelong.

Isaac returned to Sydney in 1853 for the auction of the lease of the late Edward WEDGE and purchased from the Crown the Pastoral Occupation Licence of the Werribee Run at Wyndham owned by the late Edward WEDGE. Wyndham, on the Werribee River, was originally settled in 1836. It thrived as a rural township and it was gazetted in 1884 as Werribee. Isaac BODDINGTON returned to Wyndham and took up the Werribee Run in 1853.

Isaac built the 'Bluestone Cottage' up on the high escarpment above the Werribee River safe from any flood.

Isaac was the second occupier of the Werribee Run.

There was a story told in the family that, after he was dispossessed of the Werribee Run, Isaac had a breakdown. He was admitted to 'Yarra Bend' Mental Hospital. He died aged 40 years in 1867.

After the Werribee Run, Isaac BODDINGTON settled at Freshwater Creek on the Angelsea road. After his death in 1867, Elizabeth Ann BODDINGTON (nee GLADMAN) moved into a modest cottage in Jackson Street, Winchelsea, with her 4 children, where she lived for over 50 years.

There was thought to have been a BODDINGTON family row on their way to Australia and Isaac's brothers disembarked at Perth, Western Australia. Not much more is known about them, although the Western Australian Pioneers' Index 1841-1905 records marriages for William, Henry, Albert Arthur and James BODDINGTON in the years 1871 to 1897.

Isaac was literate and signed his own name when he was registered as a Christian Israelite in 1859.

Isaac died aged 40 years in 1867 and is buried in the grounds of the Yarra Bend Mental Hospital (now Northcote, Victoria). [It is possible that, later, his body may have been relocated to the Beechworth Cemetery Presbyterian section A 1189].

There was an inquest held. On his death certificate it stated that Isaac had 'congestion and chronic disease of the brain' and this was certified at the Coroner's Inquest. When he died on 11 March 1867, he had suffered from it for 3 months, according to the doctor.

Returning for a moment to the BODDINGTONs in Western Australia, the Western Australian Pioneers' Index 1841-1905 also records a marriage in 1901 at Marble Bar for Eleanor Jessica BODDINGTON to Alfred Howden DRAKE-BROCKMAN. He was the station owner at Corunna Downs Station in the Pilbara and was an important figure in Sally Morgan's book, 'My Place'.

Eleanor had been a governess in the area and was his first wife. Alfred Howden DRAKE-BROCKMAN died early in 1928.

Boddington, 123 kilometres south-east of Perth, in Western Australia, is named after Henry BODDINGTON, a farmer who shepherded sheep in the area in the 1860s and 1870s, and also leased land in 1875.

A pool in the Hotham River was known as BODDINGTON Pool, and when the site for a railway stopping place and a townsite was chosen adjacent to the pool, BODDINGTON was selected as the name. The townsite was gazetted in 1912.

Boddington is the nearest town to the Worsley Alumina bauxite mine.

I am keen to ascertain more information about Isaac BODDINGTON's relationship with other BODDINGTONs in England and Australia.