Name: Joseph Ansley Event Date: 30 Mar 1755 Event Type: Burial Parish: Almondbury, All Hallows Abode: Armitage Bridge Occupation: Inn Keeper
General Notes
BADGER: A licenced huckster (peddler or hawker). A corn miller or dealer or an itinerant food trader. Travelling provisions dealer. Licensed pauper who wore a badge with the letter P on it and could only work in a defined area (the term "Badgering comes from this"). A petty jobber, or trickster.
Joseph recorded his abode as Hall Ing or sometimes Astley Bridge. This is probably the same place, where Hall Ing Lane is now, near Honley.
He was a clothier, but recorded as an Inn Keeper on his burial reord.
John was born in 1750 in Berry Brow and his baptism took place on March 24th, 1750 in Almondbury.1
Birth Notes
Name: John Ansley Event Date: 24 Mar 1750 Event Type: Christening (Baptism) Parish: Almondbury, All Hallows Father's Name: Joseph Ansley Abode: Hall Ing Occupation: Clothier