TIDRIDGE WEB SITE

Recorded as Tedridge, Tidridge, Titherridge and possibly others, this is an English surname. It is locational and of medieval origin and describes a person who lived 'atta ridge,' which is also the name of a now apparently "lost" medieval village in the Hampshire area. Locational surnames are usually 'from' names. That is to say names given to people after they left their original village to move somewhere else.

Spelling over the centuries being at best erratic and local accents very thick, soon lead to the development of 'sounds like' surname spellings. In this case examples of the name development over the centuries and taken from the surviving registers of the county of Hampshire include William Titherige of Cheriton, on November 18^th 1705, James Tidridge, a witness at New Alresford Independent Church on October 12^th 1834, whilst on February 4^th 1844, Jane Tedridge, the daughter of Henry and Ann was christened at Bishops Waltham. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of John Titheridge. This was dated June 13^th 1642 when he married Erne Garret at Bighton, North Petersfield, during the reign of King Charles 1^st of England, 1625 1649.

Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was sometimes known as the Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

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Please note our own records tend to disagree with the above assessment

In order to present (it is hoped) a more direct link to individuals their ancestors will be added above the last personally known family member. It is hoped this will not confuse issues. It should also be noted that the Tidridge clan enjoys(?) many and varied spellings of their names.

According to material from Geoff Higgins [scroll down] both William and Priscilla were buried as Tetheridges

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Ivan was born 19^th. August 1940, the son of W.S. and F.E. Tidridge
Place of Birth Totton near Southampton Hampshire England.

Educated at Eling Primary School 1945 -1951
Brockenhurst County High 1951 -1954
Southampton Junior Technical School 1954 - 1955

Married 10^th. March 1962 to Phyllis Virtue Meatyard at Lockerley and they had two children, a son - Alec - born 19^th. January 1963 in Romsey, and a daughter - Sandra - born 20^th. September 1964 in Havant.

Work History - England

Served a 5 years apprenticeship as Ships Joiner at Harland and Wolf, Ship Builders Repairers Southampton. 1956 - 1962. Attended Southampton Technical College during apprenticeship and completed course in Carpentry and Joinery and achieved First Class City and Guilds Certificate in Carpentry and Joinery. Left Harland and Wolf in 1962 to work for a building company in Romsey 1962 -1963.

August 1963 joined the Hampshire and Isle Wight Constabulary, later known as the Hampshire Constabulary, and served for seven years, the last four as a Traffic Motorcyclist attaining a First Class Advanced Riding Certificate plus a First Aid Certificate.

Life in Australia

In August 1970 whole family emigrated to Perth, Western Australia. For the first four years, I worked as cabinet maker in and around Perth living for that time in the suburb of Applecross. In 1974 I went to Mount Newman in the North West of Western Australia to work for construction Company for six months. The family came also and we resided in a caravan, moving to Karratha, where in February 1975 I became a sub contractor in the building industry specializing in second fixing houses. I stayed at this for just over six years. We lived in Caravan for 3 years until we eventually built our own home.

1982 saw a complete change in our work situation when Phyl and I moved to Esperance in the South East of Western Australia. Alec stayed in Karratha and Sandra went to South Australia with her now husband John Walker.

In Esperance I moved into the field of Intellectual Disabilities as the manager of a small Training Centre for people with intellectual disabilities. My job was teaching them work skills and work ethics. They all had severe disabilities and in reality, little or no chance of open employment. In 1985 we moved from Esperance to Bunbury in the South West of Western Australia on my promotion as the Assistant Manager to a far bigger centre catering for some 100 people with disabilities.

In 1987 I gained the position as General Manager of a Special Training Unit back in Perth. This was a totally new project for Western Australia there only being three others in the whole of Australia at the time. I lasted eighteen months and then due to health reasons, left and came to Adelaide in South Australia where I became the Manager of a similar unit to that in Bunbury. I stayed there until I retired in 1999 due to the need to have total knee replacement operations on both knees.

Our Family in Australia

From 1999 to the present time (2001) both Phyl and I are happily retired enjoying golf and our grandchildren and travel with our small caravan and four wheel drive.

Sandra married John Walker on the 30^th.September 1984 in Esperance. They have two children, Teaghan born 21^st. August 1987 in Adelaide and Samuel born 26^th. November 1989 also in Adelaide. They now all live on a six acre property in Pages Flat just south of Adelaide. John is a manager for an arm of Telstra and they have a 600 tree olive grove which they planted in 1996 after having cleared and prepared the land to be able to do so.

Alec is a plant operator for Dampier Salt the biggest evaporative salt mine in the world at Dampier in the North West of Western Australia. He lives in Karratha the local town. He married Rhonda Nammin on the 10^th. November 1991 in Perth, Western Australia. They have two children and one grandchild from Rhonda's previous marriage.

Ivan Tidridge (9 Aug 2001)

27 Aug 2002
from Gavin Maidment

copies of an e-mail to Ivan Tidridge in Australia, John Tidridge Editor, in Canada, and John Bathgate, Web Site Producer in Wales, UK

Dear Ivan and Phyl,

The sheer scope of the Internet never ceases to amaze me. From 1940 - 1947, between the ages of 5 and 12 years, I lived with my parents in the village of Swanmore. Last Thursday evening, in an idle moment, I googled on MAIDMENT SWANMORE HAMPSHIRE, not really expecting to find anything. Sure enough, there was nothing there about my family. There was, however, a reference to an Arthur TITHERIDGE, who lived at Swanmore and married a Sarah MAIDMENT. (No relation ! ) For more information on Arthur click here

I was then of course referred to the TIDRIDGE web site. Seeing as how you are the only TIDRIDGEs that I've ever met, I immediately thought of you. I was naturally delighted to find the prominent part that you play on the site. I was most interested to read your up to date autobiography, and to see all the photos of you both which are scattered throughout the site. I note that you, Ivan, like the rest of us males, are putting on weight ! Phyl appears, like Marion, to be blooming !

Sorry to hear about you knee problems, Ivan. I now have a form of Parkinson's disease. Whilst I am fortunate not to have the tremor which is often associated with this condition, it has effected my speech and my handwriting has also gone. Hardly surprisingly therefore, I consider, computers, the Internet and e-mail to be the best thing since the invention of the proverbial sliced bread ! I can however still manage to do most things, albeit at a slow pace.

However, I digress. I am in regular contact with Tony and Sally HARDING via e-mail. I immediately reported my findings as above to them, and I was very pleased when I got their reply and learned that they had met up with you when you visited WA recently Tony gave me your e-mail address.

It is a pity that I did not undertake the above exercise some six months ago, as in March this year we were in Adelaide visiting our good friends Ralph and Pamela PAYNE (ex neighbours from Southampton) who live in the northern suburb of Hill Bank. Sadly, Pamela has lung cancer, and has just gone into hospital for almost certainly the last time. Before visiting Adelaide, we had flown into Brisbane via Japan. We then spent a week on Stradbroke Island visiting some newly found 3^rd cousins. We then flew to Sydney, where we spent five days with yet another 3^rd cousin. We then took the train to Adelaide, thus completing the overland route. ( We did Adelaide to Perth when we were down under for the first time in 1987. ) Whilst we were in Adelaide, ( twelve days overall ) we took a four day side trip by train to Melbourne. Finally, we flew Adelaide to Sydney, where we spent our last night in Oz.

Then home via Japan, where we stopped overnight in a hotel. The daylight last leg of our journey from Tokyo to Heathrow was our most interesting flight ever. We flew across the snow covered wastes of Siberia, with clear visibility for almost all of the way. Absolutely magnificent !

Have you been in touch with Bob SCOREY recently ? I bump into him occasionally, and he always asks after you. If you have not, and would like to do so, please let me have your snail mail address and I will pass it on to him. I do not know if he has e-mail.

I bumped into Colin HARDING and his wife in the ubiquitous MacDONALDS in Chichester about eighteen months ago. They are both reasonably well. We probably told you when we last met in 1987, that we now live next door to Len BUTCHER, an ex Pompey city traffic policeman. Your successor at Buriton, John WARNER, visits him and we speak whenever we see him. Sadly, his wife has just died.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards. Gavin and Marion.

Ivan and Phyl became great-grand parents in July 2011, Caitlyn arrived safe and sound

Ivan's 80th Birthday August 20220; celebrsted with his wife, daugher, granddaughter and her husband, son-in-law and great granddaugther

Both Ivansd and Phyl have had their share of health problems, too numerous to list here. Phyl is the contact person and she corresponds with John on a regular basis.