HI,
John Day Lodington's family may have settled in Victoria.
a Kenneth William son of John Day Lodington and Bridget McKenzie died in Brunswick Melbourne in 1927 aged 67. rego13393 est dob 1860
It gets quite interesting here
KENNETH William Lodington born KING GEORGES SOUND married Ellen Annie Jones in 1883 #3363 They had children
John Day 1885, Ellen Avona 1887, Cuthbert Joseph 1889, Alice Louvena 1891, Sarah 1893. Ellen Anie died aged 30 in 1894 and Kenneth then married Ann Robertson Short in 1897,
Kenneth William b 1897, Stewart Hugh b1900, George Edward 1902, Eugenie Jane 1904 and then Ann Short died in 1904.
marriages of their children then start to show up and can be traced.
KING GEORGES SOUND was an early penal settlement in Australia many of the british military served there in the early 1800's.A Thomas Lodington and Catherine Porter had a son in Victoria JOHN in 1858 #3747 a John Lodington died in 1882 aged57 #2571 Thomas aged 75 in 1896 #8824 in Brunswick (surname idexed as Loddington.)
these can be searched for at a small fee and ordered for around $18 each on line from:
https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/home through the historical indexes.
They all seem to be connected and are the only Lodingtons in teh Victorian records.
I will explore other Australian records later and see what I can turn up.
I have some military sites and BDM's & newspapers to look at and it may take some time.
good hunting
Robyn