When Joseph Johnston Badger was born on 28 November 1823, in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States, his father, Robert Badger, was 41 and his mother, Nancy Ann Johnston, was 38. He married Lucinda Ann McCann on 28 November 1843, in Shelbyville, Addison Township, Shelby, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Santa Rosa Judicial Township, Sonoma, California, United States in 1860 and Santa Rosa, Sonoma, California, United States in 1880. He died on 19 April 1895, in San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 71.
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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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