When Francis J. Aldridge was born in 1838, in Autauga, Alabama, United States, his father, Elhanan Aldridge, was 32 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 33. He married Aleen Johnson on 11 September 1873, in Morehouse, Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Autauga, Autauga, Alabama, United States in 1850.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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