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Odd Fellows or Oddfellows ; also Odd Fellowship or Oddfellowship [ 1 ] is an international fraternity consisting of lodges first documented in in London.

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Notwithstanding, convivial meetings were held "in much revelry and, often as not, the calling of the Watch to restore order. Odd Fellows from that time include John Wilkes — and Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet of Thornton — , advocating civil liberties and reliefs, including Catholic emancipation. Political repressions , such as the Unlawful Oaths Act and the Unlawful Societies Act , [ 4 ] resulted in neutral amalgamation of the Grand United Order of Oddfellows in Since then the fraternity has remained religiously and politically independent.

George IV of the United Kingdom , admitted in while he was Prince of Wales , was the first documented of many Odd Fellows to also attend freemasonry , although the societies remain mutually independent.

Odd fellow värdegrund Oberoende Odd Fellow Orden (engelska: Independent Order of Odd Fellows, IOOF), Odd Fellows, är ett politiskt obundet internationellt ordenssällskap.

Odd fellow sekt Alltsedan de första historiska dokumenten från mitten av talet har Odd Fellow Orden spritt sig över världen och finns nu representerad i de flesta världsdelar.

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In , further instigations led to the establishment of the Independent Order of Oddfellows Manchester Unity in England. Odd Fellows spread overseas, including formally chartering the fraternity in the United States in In , due to British authorities intervening in the customs and ceremonies of British Odd Fellows and in light of post-colonial American sovereignty, the American Odd Fellows became independent as the Independent Order of Odd Fellows under British-American Thomas Wildey — , soon constituting the largest sovereign grand lodge.

The Daughters of Rebekah, now known as the International Association of Rebekah Assemblies , was established in as a women's auxiliary organization to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Odd Fellows promote philanthropy , the ethic of reciprocity and charity; some grand lodges imply a Judeo-Christian affiliation. The American-based Independent Order of Odd Fellows enrolls some , members divided into approximately 10, lodges in thirty countries, [ 8 ] [ 9 ] and is interfraternally recognised by the British-based Independent Order of Oddfellows Manchester Unity.

Several theories aim to explain the etymological background of the name "Odd Fellows," often spelled "Oddfellows" in British English. In the 18th century United Kingdom, major trades were organised in guilds or other forms of syndicates , but smaller trades did not have equivalent social or financial security.

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One theory has it that "odd fellows", people who exercised unusual, miscellaneous "odd trades", eventually joined together to form a larger group of "odd fellows. Another theory suggests that in the beginning of odd fellowship in the 18th century, at the time of the early era of industrialisation, it was rather odd to find people who followed noble values such as fraternalism, benevolence and charity.

Any suggestion of history before the 18th century is considered mere speculation. The Odd Fellows are one of the earliest and oldest fraternal societies, but their early history is obscure and largely undocumented. Traditions tracing the fraternity's origins back to Roman emperors Nero and Titus are considered dubious. By the 13th century, tradesmen's guilds had become established and prosperous.

During the 14th century, guild masters moved to protect their power and wealth by restricting access to the guilds.

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In response, the less experienced and less wealthy fellows established their own rival guilds. When Henry VIII broke with the Roman Catholic Church , he viewed the guilds as supporting the pope , and in he confiscated all material property of the guilds. Elizabeth I stripped the guilds of the responsibility for training apprentices , and by the end of her reign, most guilds had been suppressed.

The exact origin of Oddfellowship is involved in obscurity. It must have had a beginning, but just when and where, no historian has ever been able to ascertain.

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All of its history prior to the introduction of the Order into England is merely conjecture founded upon proofless, and, in most cases, absurd traditions. Great antiquity has been claimed for the order Oddfellows themselves, however, now generally admit that the institution cannot be traced back beyond the first half of the 18th century. There were numerous Oddfellow organizations in England in the s.

By it being lodge number 9, this connotes that there were older Oddfellows lodges that existed before this date. Subsequent to the failure of Bonnie Prince Charlie 's uprising in , in these two Orders formed a partial amalgamation as the Grand United Order of Oddfellows. These days they are more commonly known as "The Grand United Order of Oddfellows Friendly Society" GUOOFS , [ 24 ] abandoning all political and religious disputes and committing itself to promoting the harmony and welfare of its members.

Some books mention that there was a lodge of a 'Union Order of Oddfellows' in London in , and one in Derby in The Oddfellows Magazine of included a picture of a medal presented to the secretary of a lodge of the Grand Independent Order of Oddfellows in In a magazine review of a sermon preached in the Sheffield Parish Church, the "Oddfellows appear to be very numerous with about thirty-nine lodges of them in London and its vicinity, two at Sheffield, and one at each of the following places: Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Shrewsbury, Windsor, Wandsworth, Canterbury, Liverpool, Richmond in Surrey and Lewes".