When Abner Aldridge was born in 1768, in Orange, North Carolina, United States, his father, James J Aldridge, was 26 and his mother, Rosannah Kendrick, was 18. He married Rebecca House on 20 March 1798, in District 1070, Macon, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died in 1840, in Monroe, Alabama, United States, at the age of 72.
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English:
from the Middle English personal names Alrich or Elrich and Aldrich or Eldrich, representing any one of three Old English personal names, Æthelrīc, Ælfrīc, and Ealdrīc, formed respectively from æthel- ‘noble’, ælf ‘elf, sprite’, and (e)ald ‘old, honored’ + rīc ‘ruler’.
habitational name from Aldridge (Staffordshire), Aldridge Grove in Hampden (Buckinghamshire), or from a similarly named unidentified place in the West Midlands, recorded in Domesday Book as Alrewic, from Old English alor ‘alder’ + wīc ‘specialized farmstead’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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