John and Fanny Boden
John and Fanny were some of the first people to worship at St John’s. As early as the 1841 census John was recorded as a coal miner, the same as his father. This era was the peak of Titterstone Clee Hill coal mining.
By 1851 they were married and were living in what is now 15 Doddington with 5 children. They were founding parishioners of St. John when it opened in 1849 and baptised many of their 13 children there. Their eldest son Edward (1844-1931) emigrated to the US in 1863, joined the Vermont Cavalry fighting for the Northern States in the American Civil war and lost a leg in The Battle of the Wilderness in 1864. He returned to see his mother in Doddington in 1869.
