Body (Boddy) Family in England

[hnb13]

Hello again, can someone please advise when the spelling of Body changed to Boddy, appears to have happened in Australia. There are two distinct families in England with the two variants of the spelling, it could cause unnecessary research if the wrong family spelling is selected.
Some of my BDM cert's show Boddy where other cert's show Body. My family uses Boddy in Australia but my ancestors in England used Body, could it just be a case of phonetic spelling?

[RobertHauteville]

Spellings were not consistant until c.1900 so treat Body and Boddy (+ variants) as potentially the same family before then.

The Agricultural Revolution forced unemployed country labourers to move to the cities so your C19th Bodys probably moved there from elsewhere to seek work. I have no idea if they are connected but there was a family of Bodys just west of London in South Buckinghamshire who go back several hundred years b4 1800.

e.g. Will of Thomas Bodye of Farnham Royal 1573 Bucks RO DAWe 17 12 https://shop.buckscc.gov.uk/s4s/WhereILive/Council?pageId=2347&pid=36803787-1a6a-4c46-bbfb-a5ad00f89b6b&supId=c988f85e-be98-4bf3-b184-a5ad00efd350&bcgId=fcea1611-2a26-4a1d-a4a6-b480f7423e14