Joseph Parsons was Curate at Badsey and Wickhamford during the tenure of the absentee Vicar, the Reverend George William Auriol Hay Drummond. He performed three marriage ceremonies at Badsey in a period between May and July 1786.
It is likely that he was the Joseph Parsons, a graduate of Trinity College, Oxford, who, according to the Clergy of the Church of England database (CCEd), was ordained a priest at Hartlebury Castle on 30th November 1785.
If this is the correct Joseph Parsons, he was born at Oxford in 1761, married Laetitia Catherine Patteson in about 1788 and had four children all born at Elmore, Gloucestershire, in the 1790s. He was Vicar of Shopland 1799-1803, Curate of Hitchin 1806, Rector of Caldecote 1806-1816, Rector of Holwell 1808-1829, Rector of Peakirk 1816-1829 and Canon of Peterborough Cathedral 1815-1829.
Reverend Parsons died at Prebendal House, Peterborough, on 1st February 1829. His wife died nearly 11 months later. They are both buried in Peterborough Cathedral.
