See also

William BADNALL (c. 1622-1700)

1. William BADNALL, son of Thomas BADNALL (1593-1675) and Clare BROUGHTON (1595-1648), was born circa 1622 in Standon, Staffordshire? He was baptised on 26 December 1622 in All Saints, Standon, Staffordshire. He married Sarah UNK circa 1658. He died in April 1700 in Stramshall, Staffs. He was buried on 30 April 1700 in St. Mary, Uttoxeter, Staffs..

 

Sarah UNK was born circa 1630. She died in February 1711 in Uttoxeter, Staffs.. She was buried on 1 March 1711 in Three Towns, Uttoxeter. She and William BADNALL had the following children:

 

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William BEDNALL (c. 1660-1724)

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Sarah BADNALL (c. 1665-bef1748)

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Christopher BADNALL (c. 1674-1723)

Second Generation

2. William BEDNALL, son of William BADNALL and Sarah UNK, was born circa 1660. He was baptised circa 1660. He married Sarah STUBBINGS on 14 September 1705 in St. Mary, Uttoxeter, Staffs.. He died in July 1724 in Stramshall, Uttoxter, Staffs. He was buried on 5 July 1724 in St. Mary. He married Dorothy ALKIN.

 

Dorothy ALKIN was christened on 9 May 1661 in St. Mary. She married on 4 July 1683 in St. Mary. She died in Stramshall, Uttoxeter. She was buried on 13 November 1701 in St. Mary. She and William BEDNALL had the following children:

 

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Anne BEDNALL (chr.1684, bur.1696)

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Sarah BEDNALL (c. 1685-1698)

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Dorothy BEDNALL (c. 1688- )

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Elizabeth BEDNALL (c. 1690-1698)

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Elenor BEDNALL (chr.1692, d.aft1715)

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Anne BEDNALL (chr.1696)

 

Sarah STUBBINGS was born in 1690 (estimated). She died in 1737. She and William BEDNALL had the following children:

 

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William BEDNALL (c. 1705-1796)

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Thomas BADNALL (1712- )

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Christopher BADNALL (bap.1714)

 

3. Sarah BADNALL, daughter of William BADNALL and Sarah UNK, was born circa 1665. She was baptised on 1 March 1665 in Hanbury, Staffordshire. She married Edward NORRIS on 25 July 1685 in St. Peters, Derby. She died before 1748.

 

Edward NORRIS was born circa 1662. He was baptised circa 1662. He died before 1748. He was buried before 1748 in St. Mary. He and Sarah BADNALL had the following children:

 

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William NORRIS (bap.1688, d.bef1699)

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Elizabeth NORRIS (bap.1690, d.bef1700)

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Edward NORRIS (bap.1692)

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Christopher NORRIS (bap.1695)

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Sarah NORRIS (bap.1697, d.bef1700)

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William NORRIS (bap.1699)

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Sarah NORRIS (bap.1700)

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Dorothy NORRIS (bap.1702)

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John NORRIS (bap.1704)

 

4. Christopher BADNALL, son of William BADNALL and Sarah UNK, was born circa October 1674 in Uttoxeter, Staffs. He was baptised on 27 October 1674 in St. Mary, Uttoxeter, Staffs. He was a Sharman, Innholder. He married Sarah WHIELDEN on 27 August 1698 in Sudbury. He died in August 1723 in Spath, Uttoxeter, Staffs. He was buried on 16 August 1723 in St. Mary.

 

Sarah WHIELDEN was born circa 1673. She died in September 1734 in Three Towns, Uttoxeter, Staffs. She was buried on 19 September 1734 in St. Mary. She and Christopher BADNALL had the following children:

 

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William BADNALL (1699-c. 1760)

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Joseph BADNALL (1700-c. 1740)

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John BADNALL (1702-1703)

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Mary BADNALL (1704-1727)

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Sarah BADNALL (c. 1707-1713)

Third Generation

5. Anne BEDNALL, daughter of William BEDNALL and Dorothy ALKIN, was christened on 17 April 1684 in St. Mary, Uttoxeter, Staffs.. She was buried on 27 September 1696 in St. Mary.

 

6. Sarah BEDNALL, daughter of William BEDNALL and Dorothy ALKIN, was born circa May 1685. She was christened on 21 May 1685 in St. Mary. She died in October 1698 in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire. She was buried on 25 October 1698 in St. Mary.

 

7. Dorothy BEDNALL, daughter of William BEDNALL and Dorothy ALKIN, was born circa April 1688 in Uttoxeter. She was christened on 1 May 1688 in St. Mary.

 

8. Elizabeth BEDNALL, daughter of William BEDNALL and Dorothy ALKIN, was born circa May 1690. She was christened on 9 May 1690 in St. Mary. She died in December 1698. She was buried on 13 December 1698 in St. Mary.

 

9. Elenor BEDNALL, daughter of William BEDNALL and Dorothy ALKIN, was christened on 5 February 1692 in St. Mary. She died after 1715.

 

10. Anne BEDNALL, daughter of William BEDNALL and Dorothy ALKIN, was christened on 21 September 1696 in St. Mary.

 

11. William BEDNALL, son of William BEDNALL and Sarah STUBBINGS, was born circa June 1705 in Stramshall, Uttoxeter. He was baptised on 27 June 1707 in St. Marys, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire. He was a Toll House Keeper. He married Anne UNK circa 1727. He died in February 1796 in Toll House, Creighton, Uttoxeter. He was buried on 22 February 1796 in St. Marys.

 

Anne UNK was born circa 1706. She was baptised circa 1706. She died in January 1780 in Crakenmarsh, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire. She was buried on 29 January 1780 in St. Marys, Uttoxeter. She and William BEDNALL had the following children:

 

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Sarah BEDNALL (chr.1736, d.1833). Sarah was christened on 28 January 1736 in St. Marys. She died in August 1833. She was buried on 25 August 1833 in St. Marys.

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William BEDNALL (c. 1734-1823). William was born circa 1734 in Uttoxeter. He was baptised on 16 February 1734 in St. Marys, Uttoxeter, Staffs. He died in October 1823 in Sutton Heath, Derbyshire. He was buried on 7 October 1823.

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Dorothy BEDNALL (chr.1740, bur.aft1763). Dorothy was christened on 23 January 1740 in St. Marys. She was buried after 1763.

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Mary BEDNALL (chr.1743). Mary was christened on 5 April 1743 in St. Marys.

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Thomas BEDNALL (chr.1746, bur.1748). Thomas was christened on 1 October 1746 in St. Marys. He was buried on 26 April 1748 in St. Marys.

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Joseph BEDNALL (c. 1749-1833). Joseph was born circa 1749. He was christened on 3 May 1749 in Uttoxeter. He was baptised on 3 May 1749 in St. Mary. He died on 7 July 1833 in Breadsall, Derbyshire. He was buried in Morley, Derbyshire.

 

12. Thomas BADNALL, son of William BEDNALL and Sarah STUBBINGS, was born in January 1712 in Uttoxeter, Staffs. He was christened on 3 January 1712 in St. Mary.

 

13. Christopher BADNALL, son of William BEDNALL and Sarah STUBBINGS, was christened on 13 January 1714 in St. Mary. He was baptised on 13 January 1714 in St. Mary, Uttoxeter, Staffs.

 

14. William NORRIS, son of Edward NORRIS and Sarah BADNALL, was baptised on 26 August 1688 in St. Mary. He died before 1699. He was buried before 1699.

 

15. Elizabeth NORRIS, daughter of Edward NORRIS and Sarah BADNALL, was baptised on 8 May 1690 in St. Mary. She died before 1700.

 

16. Edward NORRIS, son of Edward NORRIS and Sarah BADNALL, was baptised on 6 December 1692 in St. Mary.

 

17. Christopher NORRIS, son of Edward NORRIS and Sarah BADNALL, was baptised on 21 May 1695 in ST. Mary, Uttoxeter, Staffs.

 

18. Sarah NORRIS, daughter of Edward NORRIS and Sarah BADNALL, was baptised on 4 June 1697 in St. Mary. She died before 1700 in Uttoxeter.

 

19. William NORRIS, son of Edward NORRIS and Sarah BADNALL, was baptised on 17 January 1699 in St. Mary.

 

20. Sarah NORRIS, daughter of Edward NORRIS and Sarah BADNALL, was baptised on 2 March 1700 in St. Mary.

 

21. Dorothy NORRIS, daughter of Edward NORRIS and Sarah BADNALL, was baptised on 30 August 1702 in St. Mary.

 

22. John NORRIS, son of Edward NORRIS and Sarah BADNALL, was baptised on 8 March 1704 in St. Mary.

 

23. William BADNALL, son of Christopher BADNALL and Sarah WHIELDEN, was born on 30 July 1699 in Uttoxeter. He was baptised in July 1699 in St. Mary's, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire. He was a Mohair and silk dyer. He married Sarah WOLRICH on 25 November 1723 in Madeley, Staffordshire. He married Esther BOSTOCK on 31 July 1733 in St. Edward's, Leek, Staffs. He died circa December 1760 in Mill Street, Leek, Staffs. He was buried on 13 December 1760 in St. Edwards Churchyard, Leek.

 

William Badnall (d. 1760) of Mill Street worked as a dyer by 1734 and possibly by 1725, with dyehouses by the Churnet in Abbey Green Road at its junction with Mill Street. He was described as a mohair dyer in 1736. In 1758 he bought the bankrupt Richard Ferne's linen-thread works on the opposite side of Abbey Green Road, which included a dyehouse by Ball Haye brook. It is not known that he ever engaged in silk dyeing.

The Badnall family's works was engaged in silk dyeing by the 1780s under the management of William's son Joseph.

In 1818 there was only one factory, and that had only a few looms. It stood in Mill Street and was run by Richard Badnall and William Laugharn, who appear to have been using steam power by 1816. A foreign visitor in 1826 described it as a 'fine factory building, at the end of the town, quite new, most splendid position in the whole place';

When Joseph Badnall died in 1803, his dyeworks was taken over by his son William and brother James. On William's death in 1806 a partnership was formed between James and his brother Richard and son Joseph. James died in 1813. By 1826 the works was run by a partnership consisting of Richard's son Richard, F. G. Spilsbury, and Henry Cruso; the partners also manufactured silk and silk machinery. The partnership was dissolved that year. The business was bought by James Badnall's son Joseph, on whose death in 1830 it passed to his sister Ann. She let the works to John Clowes, who died in 1833.

The Commercial Bank, also in Market Place, was opened in 1825 by a partnership consisting of Richard Badnall of Highfield House in Leekfrith, his son Richard of Ashenhurst in Bradnop, R. R. Ellis, Henry Cruso, and F. G. Spilsbury; all, except apparently Ellis, were connected with the silk industry. The partners were reduced in 1826 to the elder Badnall and Ellis. In 1827 the partnership was dissolved, and Ellis was left to close the bank at a heavy loss to himself.

His eldest son William (d. 1896) and another son Joseph (d. 1908) went into partnership in 1850 or 1851 with William Beaumont Badnall; William was then living at Pickwood, Joseph at the Derby Street house, and Badnall in Church Lane. In 1854 Badnall became the son-in-law of Francis Cruso, and he apparently took over most of the Cruso practice.


William Badnall, a Leek silk dyer (d. 1806), was also a philanthropist, and on his death left the interest on ?,000 to be distributed in blankets, quilts, clothing, and other necessities such as coal but not food or drink on 5 November to 20 poor widows aged 60 or over; half the widows were to be residents in Leek town and half in Lowe. Because an insufficient number from Lowe were eligible, the number of town widows who benefited in the earlier 1820s was 13.

(Sponsor: Victoria County History
Publication: A History of the County of Staffordshire: Volume VII
Year published: 1996).

 

Leek, also known as the Queen of the Moorlands is a historic North Staffordshire market town, situated close to the head of the River Churnet and on the southern edge of the Peak District National Park. The town is full of character and charm with a wealth of interesting buildings, a lively shopping centre with speciality shops and restaurants and an open air
market every Wednesday. Leek flourished in the 19th Century following the Industrial Revolution with the advent of the textiles industry and also had strong links with the Arts and Crafts Movement. The houses at Churnet Manor each pay homage to four integral pioneers associated with Leek and its textiles: William Morris, William Badnall, Thomas Wardle and Richard Norman Shaw.

 

Sarah WOLRICH, daughter of Thomas WOLRICH ( - ) and Anne SMITH ( - ), was born circa 1705. She was born circa 1705. She died in 1731 in Leek. She died in 1731 in Leek, Staffordshire. She was buried on [Julian] 20 March 1731 in St. Edwards, Leek, Staffs. She and William BADNALL had the following children:

 

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Thomas BADNALL (c. 1725-1725). Thomas was born circa 1725 in Mill Street, Leek, Staffs. He was christened on 20 August 1725 in St. Edward's, Leek, Staffs.. He died in 1725 in Leek, Staffs.. He was buried on 29 November 1725 in St. Edward's Leek, Staffs.

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John BADNALL (c. 1726-1793). John was born circa October 1726 in Mill Street. He was baptised on 5 November 1726 in St. Edward's P.C. Leek, Staffs. He was a silk merchant. He married Elizabeth JACKSON circa 1757. He died in October 1793 in Leek. He was buried on 20 October 1793 in In the church of St. Edwards, Leek.. There is a plaque in the tower.

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Sarah BADNALL (bap.1729, d.1805). Sarah was baptised on 28 August 1729 in St. Edward's P.C. Leek. She married Thomas SMITH on 1 January 1751 in Wybunbury, Cheshire. She died in February 1805 in Leek. She was buried on [Julian] 11 February 1805. She was buried on 11 February 1805 in St. Edwards, Leek.

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Elizabeth BADNALL (c. 1731-c. 1758). Elizabeth was born circa 1731 in Leek. She was baptised on 10 December 1731 in St. Edward's P.C. Leek. She died circa 1758. She was buried circa 1758 in St. Edward's P.C. Leek.

 

Esther BOSTOCK, daughter of John BOSTOCK ( - ), was born circa [Julian] 1709 in Congleton, Cheshire? She was born circa 1709 in Congleton. She died in June 1760 in Leek. She was buried on 19 June 1760 in St. Edwards, Leek, Staffs.. She and William BADNALL had the following children:

 

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Joseph BADNALL (c. 1736-1803). Joseph was born circa 1736 in Mill Street. He was baptised on 2 April 1736 in St. Edward's P.C. Leek. He was a Silk Dyer. He married Martha PRATT on 17 November 1764 in St. Edwards. He died on 24 April 1803 in Leek. He was buried in April 1803 in St. Edwards churchyard, Leek.

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Esther BADNALL (c. 1738-1765). Esther was born circa 1738 in Leek. She was baptised circa 1738 in St. Edward's P.C. Leek. She married Richard PRATT on 10 July 1762 in St. Edward's P.C. Leek, Staffs.. She died in August 1765 in Leek. She was buried on 1 September 1765 in St. Edward's P.C. Leek.

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William BADNALL (1743-1777). William was born in February 1743 in Mill Street. He was baptised on 15 February 1743 in St. Edward's P.C. Leek. He was a Thread Manufacturer. He died on 2 April 1777 in Leek. He was buried on 4 April 1777 in St. Edward's P.C. Leek.

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James BADNALL (1745-1813). James was born on 10 January 1745 in Leek. He was baptised on 12 January 1745 in St. Edward's P.C. Leek. He was a button merchant, later a silk dyer. He married Martha BARNETT in August 1767 in Cheadle, Staffs.. He died in January 1813 in Mill Street, Leek, Staffordshire. He was buried on 14 January 1813 in St. Edwards.

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Charles Bostock BADNALL (bap.1734, d.1735). Charles was baptised on 29 July 1734 in St. Edward's P.C. Leek. He died in September 1735 in Leek. He was buried on 12 September 1735 in St. Edwards.

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Ann BADNALL (bap.1740). Ann was baptised on 26 July 1740 in St. Edward's P.C. Leek.

 

24. Joseph BADNALL, son of Christopher BADNALL and Sarah WHIELDEN, was born in August 1700 in Spath, Uttoxeter, Staffs. He was baptised on 26 August 1700 in St. Mary. He was an Excise Officer. He married Mary CHURCHMAN on 10 April 1726 in Abergavenny. He died circa 1740 in Bristol, St. James. He was buried circa 1740 in Bristol?.

 

... of Bristol. In or about 1720, Joseph joined H. M. Excise Service in 1720 and was posted to Bristol as a Division 5 Excise Officer. On the 10th April 1726 he and Mary Churchman were married in Abergavenny and subsequently lived with Mary's father, Richard Churchman, in Bristol. The couple appears to have had two children, a daughter who died in 1729 and a son, Joseph II. Although Joseph Badnall remained in the Excise Service for at least 14 years, he thought the work poorly paid and fatiguing and attributed the several bouts of ill health that he had suffered to this. He therefore sought to quit the service by finding a less onerous and better paid post. His search was no doubt aided by contacts made during his years in post but perhaps more particularly by those of his father-in-law. He appears to have been successful for in 1731 he wrote to his mother to tell her that he was " now in election of another place if it happen right; 7 gentlemen concerned they offer me a good house ale & beer fire & candles & I have proposed £70 a year as salary but have not there answer as yet, I am to be clark to a brew house & malt house & look after the men in there business".

He subsequently (February 1733) asked his brother to find someone of standing who could petition the Commissioners of Excise on his behalf for a share in "the £10 Charity for Superannuated Officers".

Whether his petition achieved this aim is not known but Joseph did leave the Excise Service and became, eventually, a maltster.

 

Mary CHURCHMAN, daughter of Richard CHURCHMAN ... of Abergavenny and Bristol ( - ), was born in 1704. She was baptised on 8 October 1704 in Abergavenny. She died in 1737. She was buried on 13 October 1737 in Bristol. She and Joseph BADNALL had the following children:

 

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Richard BADNALL (1727-1728). Richard was born in 1727 in Bristol. He was baptised on 12 January 1727 in Bristol. He died in 1728 in Bristol. He was buried on 11 January 1728 in Bristol.

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Rachel BADNALL (1728-1729). Rachel was born in 1728. She was baptised on 8 August 1728 in Bristol. She died in 1729. She was buried on 17 February 1729 in Bristol.

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Joseph BADNALL (1730- ). Joseph was born in 1730. He was baptised on 22 January 1730 in Bristol.

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Sarah BADNALL (1732-1732). Sarah was born in 1732 in Bristol. She was baptised on 12 April 1732 in Bristol. She died in 1732 in Bristol. She was buried on 12 October 1732 in Bristol.

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Elizabeth BADNALL (1732-1737). Elizabeth was born in 1732. She was baptised on 21 November 1732. She died in 1737. She was buried on 5 June 1737.

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Rachel BADNALL (1733-1733). Rachel was born in 1733. She died in 1733. She was buried on 26 September 1733.

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William BADNALL (1737-1737). William was born in 1737. He died in 1737. He was buried on 26 October 1737 in Bristol.

 

25. John BADNALL, son of Christopher BADNALL and Sarah WHIELDEN, was born in August 1702 in Uttoxeter. He was baptised on 27 August 1702 in St. Mary. He died in January 1703 in Spath. He was buried on 11 January 1703 in St. Mary, Uttoxeter.

 

26. Mary BADNALL, daughter of Christopher BADNALL and Sarah WHIELDEN, was born in September 1704 in Uttoxeter. She was baptised on 21 September 1704 in St. Mary. She died in July 1727 in Uttoxeter. She was buried on 28 July 1727 in St. Mary.

 

27. Sarah BADNALL, daughter of Christopher BADNALL and Sarah WHIELDEN, was born circa 1707 in Uttoxeter. She was baptised in 1707 in St. Mary. She died in October 1713 in Spath. She was buried on 1 November 1713 in St. Mary.