I wonder whether anyone else is researching the Holdridge surname in the UK rather than US. My Holdridge family come from the Yorkshire/Lincolnshire border and do not, as far as we can tell, have any links with the ones appearing in London in the 1600s nor the branch that appears to take its name from a place name in Devon.

My GG Grandfather was George Holdridge, born in 1822 in Swinefleet near Goole. His marriage certificate (to Ann Featherby in 1847) gives his father's name as James Holdridge, a farmer. Family tradition has it that two of George's brothers emigrated to the USA in the 1850s so if anyone thinks they might be related to this branch rather than descended from the Cripplegate ones I'd love to hear from you.

I can find no record of a baptism for James Holdridge but as many of my family were involved in Methodism it may be that I need to look elsewhere for my evidence. Likewise I have yet to locate a grave for him.

Any help would be appreciated, much thanks, Heather (nee Holdridge) in North Yorkshire