Six of their great grandchildren are known to have emigrated. Esther and her younger brother Edward, together with her future husband Thomas Baldcock, to the U.S.A in 1841 and Harriet and her half sister Frances and her half brothers George and Tilden, to Australia. Esther and Thomas married at Fort Wayne, Indiana on 11 Aug 1843 and Edward married Salinda McDowell at Auburn, Indiana on 15 Jan 1860. Harriet married William Swalling on 23 Dec 1838 at Woolwich, England and he migrated to Victoria, Australia in 1853 on the Countess of Elgin and Harriet followed with their eight children leaving Plymouth on 7 Apr 1855 and arriving VIC on 8 Jul 1855 on the Samarang. Frances married James Farmer and they migrated on 27 Oct 1854 from Plymouth with their two children on the Shand and arrived at Portland, VIC, Australia on 21 Jan 1855.
Their great great grandson Frederick emigrated with his family to Canada on the Lake Manitoba departing Liverpool on 25 Mar 1908. His eldest son Frederick Ashdown and his wife Elizabeth Lilian migrated later in 1911 to Canada.
Their 3 times great grand siblings George Albert, Percy Walter and Dora Constance Eldridge migrated to the U.S.A. George in about 1907, Percy on the Cedric arriving at New York on 22 May 1910 enroute to join his brother in Washington and Dora in about 1925. Dora was with George in California in 1930.
Their 3 times great grandson Tilden Theodore Eldridge with his wife and two children migrated to Australia on the Mooltan arriving at Fremantle, WA on 24 Sep 1948.
Their 3 times great grandson John Albert Eldridge and his wife Rachel Lucy migrated to Canada on the Lake Erie arriving at Quebec on 13 Jul 1907.
Their 4 times great grandaughter Doris Jean Eldridge travelled to Sydney, NSW in 1952 and she married there on 23 Apr 1958.
Their 4 times great grandson Gilbert Alfred Eldridge and his family travelled to Australia by aircraft under the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme departing the UK on 8 Dec 1964.
Their 4 times great grandson William Henry Eldridge was a baker when he migrated with his wife Ella and daughter Joyce from London to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1924 on the Benalla.
John and Harriett Slatter
great great granddaughter of
William and Mary Eldridge
Updated 20 July 2010