Baddeley Green, Stoke on Trent

[helenw123]

Hi all

I have an ancestor with a surname of Baddeley and she was born in the Leek/Newcastle area of Stoke on Trent.

I know there is an area of Stoke called Baddeley Green and I'm wondering how the area got its name.  Was it named after someone or did the family take the area name as their surname?

Thanks,
Helen

[mshrmh]

Helen, I did find one suggestion - from the name Badda + leah the latter being a woodeland clearing:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O40-BaddeleyGreen.html
If that's right the place name is from someone, but whether the modern surname is from him or the place (or entirely possible different branches form both) I can't find an answer.

(I have more than one Baddely + variants marrying into my family - also Staffs, it seems a fairly common name in the area).

[billramp]

Hi Helen,

Yes Baddeley Green is on the road from Stoke to Leek.   I would imagine it was named after the well known
local potter John Baddeley or one of his descendants.  The family had a large pottery in Hanley and also owned
a flint mill in the Ivy House area which is not far from Baddeley Green, Ivy Cottage, later Ivy House Hall became
the home of John addeley's descendants. The site is now occupied by the Territorial Army.
Below are some links which you may find useful....


http://www.thepotteries.org/works/hanley/broad_st.htm


http://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/baddeley.htm


http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dQ4NAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=john+baddeley+potter&source=bl&ots=h6r56Mdh7y&sig=Nx6DH1G64n2ZUZ5nRZfhqlo7tBI&hl=en&ei=j1_MTMLOCtST4Qay0JHdDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&sqi=2&ved=0CDIQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=john%20baddeley%20potter&f=false


http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53370&strquery=baddeley

Good luck in your research
Bill

[harvo]

Hi,  A short History, a hamlet in the parish of Norton-on-the Moors [St Bartholomew] in the Union of Leek.N.
     Division of the Hundred of Pirehill and the County of Stafford,5 miles N.E.of Newcastle -under- Lyme,comprising the township of Bemersley and Norton and the hamlets of Baddeley Green ,Brown Edge,Ford Green,Milton ,Norton Green,Smallthorn,Whitfield Ville.
     Norton was separated from the Parish of Stoke by act of Parliament in 1807,don't know when it was re incorporated but it lies within the Stoke-on-Trent Boundary.
     The parish is a rectory living not in charge ,in the patronage of C.B.ADDERLEY Esq.
                By the way BADDELEY GREEN does have a Village Green.
             I am not sure it helps your search,but those seem to be the facts,Baddeley,Bagguley and variants  all seem to be local names,in fact i seem to think they were the original land owners on my house deeds!
              Good Hunting

[HoldcroftJ]

My family comes from Norton-in-the-Moors, of which I think Baddeley Green is a part.  The surname Baddeley has been quite common there for a long time.

An interesting snippet:

The record of the Old Nortonian Society for the year 1966 says:

In the Litany in the Church Service by the way, it was once suggested that a further supplication be added which would read - "From Baddeleys, Holdcrofts and Sargeants Good Lord deliver us!"


My dad tells me that his mum would often quote this.  She was married to a Holdcroft whose brother was married to a Sargeant.