A Global Brand

Plenty of other Eldridges pop up in the New World records. David Eldridge drowned in 1797 when swimming his horse across the Grand River in Cleveland, Ohio, and acquired the doubtful honour of becoming the first person of European descent to die in the newly founded city.

Meanwhile George H. Eldridge (1844 -1918) meanwhile was given the Medal of Honor for his part in fighting off the Kiowa Indians led by Chief Kicking Bird at the Battle of the Little Wichita River in July 1870.

https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/1093

Back in England, a Sarah Eldridge was sentenced to death at the Old Bailey in London in 1793. Her sentence was later commuted to transportation and she landed in New South Wales in 1796, the first of many Australian Eldridge immigrants. Other Eldridges made their way to New Zealand, to South Africa and Canada.

Eldred the Terrible was becoming a global brand.

(See: http://members.iinet.net.au/~rgkje/eldridge/migration.html for more)