Abigails children

Rosa, Jack, George and Caroline Erridge
attendants for Amy Erridge and her new husband Mac

Abigail Piper

This lady used to ride the brewry horses in to stormy sea off Eastbourne to launch the Lifeboat.
She married Richard Erridge and they had 10 children (that survived) Benjamin, Jane, Amy, Daisy, Elsie,John,Caroline,Fredrick, George and Rosa.

The Erridge Family manning the life boats,

Benjamin Erridge with his wife Anna (Russell)
the parents of the 3 boys below. Anna had a daughter Violet
from her previouse marrige but she was not classed as part of the family. The family lived in Eastbourne with the many other Erridges like a kind of Eastbourne Maffia. some of whom crewd the life boats

The Erridge Boys of Eastbourne

John George and Ben,

War Wedding (WW2)

The wedding of Benjamin Erridge and Betty Colbourn.
No big white frock as there was a war on and clothes were rationed,
The picture shows both sets of my great grandparents, Granny was stationed in Aldershot with ATS and granddad was Royal Navy protecting food convoys.