William Eldridge was baptised at Battle, Sussex on 11 Apr 1748 the son of James and Elizabeth. He was buried at Battle on 30 Jul 1834 and was shown as aged 86 and of that Parish. He married Sarah Potter on 14 Nov 1775 at Battle and they were both of that Parish. She was buried at Battle on 18 Aug 1837 aged 81.
Their grandsons James Eldridge, born in 1811, migrated to New South Wales, Australia in 1841 and Thomas Eldridge, born in 1817, to South Australia.
Their great grandson Samuel Edward Eldridge, migrated to Australia with his family and their great great grandson George Stephen Eldridge migrated to Australia with his family in about 1912.
Several children of their great grandson James Eldridge, born in 1838 also migrated to Australia. They were:
- Sarah Frances Eldridge, daughter of James Eldridge, a farm labourer and Sarah Galane Dunk, who married Herbert George Eldridge migrated to VIC on the Rangatira arriving Jan 1911 with children Edward, Frederick, Charles, Alice, Albert and Stephen.
- Charles James Eldridge is shown as being in Australia in a 1919 Army Statement of the living relatives of his brother Stephen George who was accidently killed in 1915. He is assumed to be the Charles James Eldridge who died at St George Hospital, Kogarah, New South Wales in 1929. The informant on this death did not know any details of his birthplace, parents or marital status and showed his age on death as 59.
- Alice Mary A Elizabeth Eldridge, shown as a housemaid age 27, migrated from London to Sydney on the Geelong departing 27 Mar 1913.
- Elizabeth, shown as Elizabeth Mary Eldridge, aged 31, a confectioner's assistant, daughter of James Eldridge (deceased), a farmer and Sarah Dunk (deceased), when she married on 27 Oct 1917 at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia to Thomas Hugh Edwards.
Their great great grandson Arthur Eldridge together with his wife and their first two children migrated to Canada on the Virginian arriving 7 May 1910. His brother William and his wife migrated the following year and the two families were together for the 1911 census in Ontario.
Their great great grandson Frederick Charles Eldridge married at Lowell in Middlesex County, Massachusetts in 1915. US census records for 1920 and 1930 show he had immigrated in 1910.
A descendent, Ernest Thomas Eldridge, died in South Australia on 27 Nov 1972. His wife Winifred Orpha died in England.
George Inkerman Hall, wife Eliza Jane née Eldridge
and daughter Lilian Eliza Hall