Odd Fellows
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Odd Fellows is a name broadly referring to any of a large number of friendly societies
Friendly society
A friendly society is a mutual association for insurance, pensions or savings and loan-like purposes, or cooperative banking. It is a mutual organization or benefit society composed of a body of people who join together for a common financial or social purpose...

, fraternal and service organizations
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 and/or Lodges.

Societies using the name "Odd Fellows" or variations

  • Oddfellows
    Oddfellows
    The name Oddfellows refers to a number of friendly societies and fraternal organisations operating in the United Kingdom. It also refers to a number of Lodges with histories dating back to the 18th century. These various organisations were set up to protect and care for their members and...

     - A British friendly society with origins in the 18th century which has spawned:
    • 1730: The earliest surviving rules of an Oddfellows Lodge - the Loyal Aristarcus Lodge in London
    • mid-18th century: The Order of Patriotic Oddfellows
    • mid-18th century: The Ancient Order of Oddfellows
    • 1789: The Grand United Order of Oddfellows
    • 1810: The Manchester Unity of Oddfellows
    • 1810: Nottingham Ancient Imperial Order of Oddfellows
    • 1820: Improved Independent Order of Oddfellows (South London)
    • 1827: The Caledonian Lodge of Oddfellows, based in Newburgh fife
      Newburgh, Fife
      Newburgh is a royal burgh of Fife, Scotland having a population of 2040 . Newburgh has grown little since 1901 when the population was counted at 1904 persons....

      , is the only Lodge of Oddfellows left in Scotland
    • 1832: The Ancient & Noble (Bolton Unity) split from the Grand United Order in 1832. (It was subsequently dissolved in 1962.)
    • 1832: Ancient National Order of Oddfellows (Bolton)
    • 1832: The Nottingham Odd Fellows split from the Manchester Unity, also in 1832.
    • 1834: Leeds United Order of Oddfellows
    • 1840: Independent Order of Oddfellows (Kingston)
    • 1845: National Independent Order of Oddfellows
    • 1849: Independent Order of Oddfellows (Norfolk & Norwich Unity)
    • 1850: Independent Order of Oddfellows Manchester Unity Friendly Society
    • 1853: Improved Independent Order of Oddfellows (London)
    • 1858: Free & Independent Order of Oddfellows
    • 1861: Ancient Independent Order of Oddfellows (Kent)
    • 1867: British United Order of Oddfellows
    • 1883: The Scottish Order of Oddfellows
    • 1900: The National Independent Order of Oddfellows
    • 1910: The Caledonian Order of United Oddfellows

  • Other British Orders of Oddfellows:
    • The Union of United Orders of Oddfellows
    • The Loyal Order of Oddfellows
    • The Ancient and Noble Order of United Oddfellows
    • The Independent Order of Oddfellows Bolton Unity Friendly Society
    • The Independent Order of Oddfellows Kingston Unity Friendly Society

  • American Odd Fellowship is regarded as being founded in Baltimore in 1819, by Thomas Wildey
    Thomas Wildey
    Thomas Wildey was the founder of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in North America. He was born in London, England, in 1782. He was left an orphan five years later - and the IOOF pledge to "Educate the Orphan" sprang from his personal childhood experiences. At the age of 14, Wildey went to...

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    • The Independent Order of Odd Fellows
      Independent Order of Odd Fellows
      The Independent Order of Odd Fellows , also known as the Three Link Fraternity, is an altruistic and benevolent fraternal organization derived from the similar British Oddfellows service organizations which came into being during the 18th century, at a time when altruistic and charitable acts were...

       (IOOF) formed in 1819 and affiliated with the Manchester Unity in 1820. They separated from the British Order in the mid-1830s.
    • The American Grand United Order of Odd Fellows (GUOOF) formed in 1843, affiliating itself with the British Manchester Unity rather than the American IOOF

  • Oddfellowship has spread around the world. Two examples:
    • In Australia
      Australia
      Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

      , Lodges formed for:
      • The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF)
      • The Grand United Order of Odd Fellows (GUOOF)
      • The Manchester Unity Order of Odd Fellows (MUOOF)
    • The IOOF has lodges in at least 29 countries (Examples)
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