Individual Details
(15 Mar 1827 - 28 Jun 1875)
William Darling DODDS and his four children (the name ‘Darling’ was the surname of John Dodds’ mother), was trained as a Draper. He was the first of the family to come to Australia. He arrived at Sydney in the first week of January 1848. In Sydney on 5th July 1851 at St. Andrew’s Church, he was married to Agnes HUGHES a young woman who had come to Australia in 1850. (She was the younger sister of Mary HUGHES, who became his 3rd English wife of John Dodds in London on 4th April 1850). At the time of William Darling’s marriage to Agnes, he was in business as a Draper in Sydney. Two months after his marriage, he arrived at his home from work one evening and was met by his wife. In a few minutes, she collapsed with heart trouble and died at 1.00 a.m. the next morning on 10th September 1851. I have seen her grave in Camperdown Cemetery, Newtown, Sydney. After the death of Agnes, William Darling Dodds went to Geelong, a town 40 miles from Melbourne. I have no record of the date of this move. But I do know that in a farming district close to Geelong, William Darling Dodds bought 76 acres of farming land, which I have seen. I assume that he worked this farm. In July 1857 he was elected a Member of the South Barwon Municipal Council, which had just been formed, and in whose area his land was situated. I do not know what type of farming he did. On 15th November 1856 at Geelong, he married his 2nd wife. She was Frances Firness WILTON, an English widow with a daughter by her first marriage. http://genforum.genealogy.com/dodds/messages/730.html
Events
| Birth | 15 Mar 1827 | Alnwick, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom | | | |
| Christen | 19 Aug 1827 | Alnwick, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom | | | |
| Marriage | 5 Jul 1851 | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Agnes Hughes | | | |
| Death | 28 Jun 1875 | Au, Amberg-Sulzbach, Bayern, Germany | | | |
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