When William Badrick was born in 1835 in Wingrave, Buckinghamshire, his father, Francis, was 36 and his mother, Sarah, was 33.
He married Ruth Parker and they had two children, Henry and William. He then married Dinah Taplin and they had three children, Jane, Annie and Ellen. He had three brothers.
He worked as a cowman.
He ended his days in Hendon, where he was celebrated as being the town's oldest man before his death at the age of 99 in 1934