Noted on 3 November 2012:     1.  The picture above depicts St. Mary the Virgin in Wotton-on-Edge, Gloucestershire, England, consecrated in 1283.  The area about is hilly land rising to a ledge of limestone to the east, called the "Edge." Although John Badger, son of John, was "of Wotton," he appears to have had all his children christened closer to or inside the city of Gloucester.  It appears that he was a leaseholder, not a freeholder, probably like most of the farmers in the Vale of the Severn.
     2.  The paragraph below about the father of Giles Badger was written by Roger D. Joslyn and published in The American  Genealogist (TAG), Volume 58, No. 2, page 91 et seq.  I will add the final portion concerning Giles Badger in the next few days, include a description of the life of his son John from other sources, and then resume with John Cogswell Badger's 1922 Supplement.

5.  JOHN BADGER (John, Humphrey?, -----, Thomas) of Wotton, parish of St. Mary de Lode, City
of Gloucester, Co. Gloucester, yeoman, the testator of 1637/8, was almost certainly the one baptized
in Churchdown, Co. Gloucester, on 20 April 1566.  Likewise, he was probably the John who married
in Churchdown, 23 Jan. 1597/8, Anne Greenwaye.  In his will of 22 March 1637/8 he named his wife
Anne.
Children:  first four baptized Churchdown, rest probably all in St. Mary de Lode:
         i.   John, bapt. 3 Dec. 1598; perhaps the John Badger of Upton St. Leonards,
                 Co. Gloucester, yeoman, the testator of 1643, who m. there 22 Jan. 1620/1,
                 Anne Webley, dau. of John Webley of Saintbridge, Co. Gloucester.  John's noncupative
                 will proved 9 Dec. 1643 was witnessed by Henry and Daniel Badger.  [Six children
                 were then listed.]
         ii.  Henry, bapt. (as Harry), 16 Nov. 1600; perhaps the Henry Badger of Matson who m.
                 Alice ----- and the Henry living 1654 who witnessed the will of (his brother) Daniel
                 Badger.  [Two children were then listed.]
         iii. Richard, bapt. 7 Jan. 1601/2.  By his father's will of 1637/8, he was to have the messuage
or tenement in Matson.  He almost certainly came to New England in 1639 with brothers Giles and Nathaniel with whom he was a freeholder in Newbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony, by 12 March
1641/2.  With them he moved inland to the Merrimack River settlement but by 1 March 1651 he
had sold his privilege there to "widdow Keyes" (John J. Currier, History of Newbury, Mass.
1635-1902 (Boston 1902), 54, 84, 88, 90, 94; Joshua Coffin, A Sketch of the History of
Newbury, Newburyport and West Newbury (1845, reprint ed. Hampton, N.H. 1977), 29;
Newbury Town Records, #13, p. 50).  He apparently left Newbury earlier, as he was of Wenham
when on 11 July 1644 he took the freeman's oath ("Records & Files of the Quarterly Courts of
Essex County, Mass., 1636-1686" (Salem 1911-1975), 1:68).  There is no further record of
Richard Badger in this country unless he is the "Goodman Badger" of Wenham in 1645 (see under
No. 6 Giles Badger, below).  [Here the Blogger moves the TAG Editor's comment into a separate
paragraph.]
     {The [TAG] Editor would like to point out that Richard is clearly placed in Wenham by the
freeman's oath in 1644.  Why is it reasonable to suppose that further references to Wenham to
"Goodman Badger" cannot refer to him?  As will presently be seen, all later references to any male
Badger in Wenham are presumed to refer to Giles, even though Giles seems to have been in
Newbury when he died soon after this time.  It seems to be true that "Goodman Badger" of
Wenham had a wife and no other record has been found to show that Richard was married.  On
the other hand Badger references appear to cease at Wenham when Giles has died.]
         iv. Thomas, bapt. 9 Sept. 1604; perhaps the Thomas who m. in Churchdown, 30 April 1634,
Elizabeth Theyer.  ...  [Three] possible children ....
         v.  Mary, bapt. 2(?) Sept. 1607, St. Mary de Lode; not named in her father's will of 1637/8.
6       vi. Giles, b. say ca. 1610.
         vii.  Nathaniel, b. say ca. 1612.  Like his brother Richard, he almost certainly left England with
his brother Giles in 1639, the three of them being freeholders of Newbury in New England by
12 March 1641/2.  On 10 May 1642, he and John Bishop purchased a house lot of five acres and
thirty acres of upland and marsh from Edmund Greenleaf of Newbury, gent., for 15 [pounds],
10 [shillings].  With his brothers, Nathaniel moved inland to the Merrimack River settlement where
he was assigned Lot 58 in the "new Towne."  Nathaniel sold his privilege here to Benjamin Rolfe
before 1 March 1651 (Currier, Hist. of Newbury 55, 84, 88, 94; Coffin, Newbury, Newburyport,
W. Newbury Hist. 292; Newbury Town Recs. # 13, pp. 45 g, 50, 71).  Nathaniel Badger returned
to England before 5 June 1651 , when the inventory of the estate of Richard Browne of Newbury
was taken, showing "Debts due from the deceased:  To Nathaniel Badger in England, 25 li. 5 s."
("Probate Records of Essex County, Mass., 1635-1681" [Salem 1916-1920], 1:342).  He no
doubt returned to England before his brother's death in 1646, for he left "some mony and goods"
with his brother Gyles Badger, probably when he left Newbury (Ipswich Deeds 4:61).  Nathaniel
had a wife Hannah, but no record of her has been found (Coffin op. cit. 294).  Nor has trace of
Nathaniel been found after he returned to England, certainly not in Gloucestershire.
         viii. Isabel, b. say ca. 1615, named in the will of her father's stepmother, Joan Badger, 1625;
unm. in 1637/8 when she was named in her father's will.
         ix. Daniel, b. say ca. 1617.  By his father's will he was to have the messuage or tenement in
Hucklecott.  Probably the Daniel Badger, of Tuffley, City of Gloucester, the testator of 1654,
yeoman, who had a wife Mary who survived him, as did these:  [Three] Children.