When Joshua Badger was born on 1 June 1751, in Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, David Badger, was 26 and his mother, Ann Modena, was 35. He married Sarah "Sabra" Gibson on 9 June 1779, in Wilkes, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Fairfield, South Carolina, United States in 1790. He registered for military service in 1777. He died on 27 November 1830, in Mercer, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 79.
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English:
habitational name from a place in Shropshire named Badger, probably from an unattested Old English personal name Bæcg + Old English ofer ‘ridge’.
occupational name for a maker of bags (see Bagge 1) or from Middle English badger ‘hawker, huckster’, though this word is not recorded before 1467–8 and it is of doubtful origin. It is unlikely that the surname has anything to do with the animal (see Brock 2), which was not known by this name until the 16th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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