When Albert Dayton Aldridge was born on 8 May 1941, in Prentiss, Mississippi, United States, his father, Vester Cecil Aldridge, was 24 and his mother, Ruby Lee Kirby, was 18. He married Barbara Ann Quinn on 5 July 1989, in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. He died on 2 March 2017, in Iuka, Tishomingo, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Vina, Franklin, Alabama, United States.
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’.
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