In New York, there is an Eldridge street just near Chinatown and named in 1817 after Lt. Joseph C. Eldridge, whose unit was ambushed in Canada by Indian allies of the British in the 1812 war.
This Blog is for the most part the story of the family history of our own branch of the Eldridge family. The investigation of the ancestors of Hetty Jane Owen, the wife of Charles Albert Eldridge is now complete, and the tale has resumed with an examination of the line of Charles Albert Eldridge.
Friday, 27 July 2018
Crossing the Atlantic
Other Eldreds and Eldridges made their way permanently to the New World. There are towns named Eldridge in both Iowa and Alabama to attest to this, and numerous Eldridge lines across the USA.
In New York, there is an Eldridge street just near Chinatown and named in 1817 after Lt. Joseph C. Eldridge, whose unit was ambushed in Canada by Indian allies of the British in the 1812 war.
In New York, there is an Eldridge street just near Chinatown and named in 1817 after Lt. Joseph C. Eldridge, whose unit was ambushed in Canada by Indian allies of the British in the 1812 war.
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