When Henry Badger was christened on 24 November 1785, in Old Swinford, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Humphry Badger, was 29 and his mother, Mary Parker, was 21. He died about 1788, in his hometown, at the age of 4.
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.
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