Origin of Surname
This is a name which is common in the Drome department of southern France, but is also found in Ile-et-Vilaine, which suggests that it arrived in Jersey from nearby Brittany. It is derived from the old French bader, bayer or beer which means 'to be open' or 'wide open'. How the name became a family name, however, is something of a mystery, although it has been suggested that it could have referred to a person responsible for opening doors.
An alternative suggestion is that it referred to someone whose mouth was always open - a simpleton or fool.
In the west of France badier is a variety of cherry tree and there are hamlets with this name, from where the original Badiers may have come.
Early records
The name in its most common spelling, and also without the final 'r', appears in Jersey church records as early as the last quarter of the 16th century.
Variants
- Badier
- Baddier, 1607
- Badie
Family records
Family trees
- Descendants of Drouet Badier
- Descendants of Jean Badier
- Descendants of Jehan Badier, the same Jean as above
- Descendants of Jean Badier - 2, a different Jean Added 2020
Church records
- Badier baptisms in Jersey
- Badier marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Badier marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Badier burials in Jersey
Badier family members who served in World War 1
- Andrew William Badier (1881- ) (St B) ex-RMIJ, Private, Royal Irish Rifles
- Edmund Charles Badier (1879- ) (St B) Private RASC, ex-RMIJ
- George Arthur Badier (1880- ) (St S) son of George and Elizabeth, husband of Louisa Frances, Private, RJGB, ex-RMIJ
Occupation records
Family wills
Burial records
Family homes
Family album
Marie Badier, born in St Helier in 1862, the daughter of Philippe Charles and Marie Adelaide, nee Jacqueline. Marie emigrated to Australia, apparently on her own, and married George Clavering Redman in Queensland at the age of 19, but was deserted by him within weeks, leading to his facing charges before the Melbourne Bench in January 1882. They must have divorced because Marie married Thomas Davey Hamilton-Foster in Sydney two years later. She died in 1894, aged only 32, leaving three living children, two more having died in infancy
Family gravestones
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