Genealogy & Family History
Badger Family of Dronfield and Rotherham
Notes & Queries
Edward BADGER m. 1588 Baslow, Dbys. Brigitte CROOKES
Children of Edward and Brigitte Badger (Nee CROOKES):
- 1589 Edward born Dronfield
- 1593 Thomas born Dronfield
- 1595 John born Dronfield
- 1599 William born Dronfield
Thomas BADGER (1593-1672) Dronfield/Sheffield m. 1627 Sheffield Maria BATES of Sheffield
Children of Thomas and Maria Badger (Nee BATES):
- (1628-1647) William born Sheffield
- (1631-1636) Thomas born Sheffield
- (1635-1715) Edward born Sheffield, died Rotherham. Marr.1. Mary BUTCHER of Clowne. Marr.2 1667 Sheffield Isabella RAMSKER.
- (1640-1678) Thomas born Sheffield, died Rotherham. Marr. 1667 Anna STEVENS
- (1642-1644) Maria born Sheffield, died Rotherham
Edward BADGER (1635-1715), Master Cutler in 1683 in Sheffield, marr. (1) 1656 Sheffield Mary BUTCHER
Children of Edward and Mary Badger (Nee Butcher):
- (1658-1675) Lydia born Sheffield
- 1660 Mary born Sheffield
- 1661 Edward born Sheffield
- 1664 Anna born Sheffield
- 1667 Edward born Sheffield
Children of Edward and Isabella Badger (Nee Ramsker):
- (1667-1728) William born Sheffield
- (1669) Martha born Sheffield
- (1671-1693) Martha born Sheffield
- 1673 Maria born Sheffield
- (1675-1731) Thomas born Sheffield
- 1680 John born Sheffield
- 1682 Jonathan born Sheffield
- 1685 Sara born Sheffield
- 1687 Isabel born Sheffield
- (1690-1720) Edmund born Rotherham
Children of Thomas(1640-1678) and Anna Badger(Nee Stevens):
- George BADGER,1678 Sheffield m. 1698 Sheffield Martha SYMON
- Joseph BADGER (1705-1780) b.& d. Sheffield marr. 1734 Sheffield Elizabeth HILL, 1708 Sheffield
- Thomas BADGER (1736-1789) b. Sheffield; died Wortley by Penistone marr. 1762 Tankersley Mary RHODES, 1732 of Worsbro
- Mary BADGER, 1780 Wortley by Penistone marr. 1808 Thomas MARSHALL, son of John MARSHALL, stone mason of Whiston
Thomas BADGER (1793-1862), the Coroner, was a grandson of Thomas BADGER & Mary RHODES. He married in 1819 to Mary SMITH (1795-1859) of Sheffield.who died 13 June 1859 age 61 in Rotherham
Thomas Badger, a solicitor was for upwards of thirty-three years one of Her Majesty's coroners for the county of York and the honor of Pontefract. Mr. Badger was a native of Tinsley, where he was born July 14th, 1793. After passing some time in the offices of Messrs. Harrison and Radford, of Derby, he was articled to Mr. Joseph Wheatley, solicitor, of Rotherham. On the expiration of his articles, he was taken into partnership by Mr. Wheatley, and for several years he carried on his profession under the firm of Wheatley and Badger. The partnership being dissolved, he practised alone with considerable success.
He was the agent of the Whig candidates for the Rotherham district from a period prior to the passing of the Reform Bill down to his death.
For two years before his death, his health had been declining, in consequence of an attack of paralysis in Sept, 1860.
Children of Thomas and Mary Badger (Nee Smith):
- 1819 Elizabeth Downs born Tinsley
- 1821 Thomas Smith (of Eastwood),of Lincolns Inn (Mdx.), barrister-at-law born Tinsley, died 1866 London
- 1823 Henry Parkin born Tinsley, died 1864 Rotherham
- 1825 Walter Samuel born Tinsley died 1848
- 1827 Emily Ann born Tinsley died 1829
Henry Parkin BADGER (1823-1864) marr. Esther Sarah WRIGHT.
Children of Henry Parkin and Esther Sarah Badger (Nee Wright):
- 1848 Thomas Wright born Sheffield. Vice.president of Rotherham Liberal Assoc.
- (1850-1934) Henry Walter born Rotherham.Living Eaton Sq Middlesex in 1875
- 1851 Mary Elizabeth born Rotherham
- (1852-1915) Wilfred born Rotherham, died NZ. Solicitor. Hon. joint secretary of Rotherham Liberal Assoc.
- 1853 Alan, wine merchant, born Rotherham, died California
- 1854 Catherine Esther born Rotherham
- (1856-1929) Frederick Richard born Rotherham
- (1858-1929) Joe Percy born Rotherham
- (1860-1863) Henrietta Emily born Rotherham
- 1861 Edith Lucy born Rotherham died Aysgarth, Yks
Thomas Wright Badger married Ida Vigars in 1881, he was 34, she was 20.
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