Born about in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England
Daughter of Roger Harding
and Isabella Harding
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Ambrose Aldridge
— married
3 Oct 1598 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England
Descendants 
Mother of
Emma (Aldridge) Topping
Died after
after about age 53
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
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Biography
Emme/Emma Harding was born probably a few weeks before her baptism, in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, 12 May 1577. In that her parents were married in Amersham and all her siblings were baptized there, it was probably her birthplace.
She is the daughter of Roger Harding (c1551–1615/6) and Isabella (Harding) Harding (c1556–1578). Isabella's maiden name appears as Harding in her and Roger’s marriage record.
Emme was living on 26 October 1630, when she presented her husband's will for probate.
Records indicate she had a brother Symon who died in infancy (1578–1578). Complications in his birth led to the death of Isabella; he was baptized the day after Isabella's burial.
She married in Amersham 3 Oct. 1598, AMBROSE ALDRIDGE (b. say 1573, a rough estimate), probably of Dunstable or Burnham by some accounts.
Ambrose and Emme's children include the following:
- John Aldridge, b.~1599
- Robert Aldridge, b. ~1601
- Thomas Aldridge, bp. Burnham, Buckinghamshire, 26 May 1604
- William Aldridge, bp. Burnham 2 June 1605
- William Aldridge (again) bp. Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire, 12 April 1607
- Sarah Aldridge, bp. Wraysbury 21 Aug. 1608
- Alice Aldridge, bp. Amersham, Buckinghamshire, 24 Feb. 1609/10
- Emma (Aldridge) Topping, bp. Langley Marish, Buckinghamshire, 28 July ____ [probably 1611]: she married Thomas Topping (1608-1687) in 1628
- Ann(e) Aldridge, bp. Wraysbury 14 Nov. 1613; m. Richard Newport
- Marie Aldridge, bp. Chesham, Buckinghamshire, 18 June 1615
- Thomas Aldridge, (again) bp. Chesham 11 Aug. 1616
- Isabell Aldridge, bp. Chesham 1 March 1617/8
- Elizabeth Aldridge, bp. Chesham 18 May 1619
- A child (William?) of Ambrose Aldridge’s died in Chesham 31 Oct. 1620
- The will of Ambrose Aldridge, dated in 1630, names seven daughters, of whom five were then unmarried.
Sources
- FamilySearch records for Ambrose Aldridge [1]
Note that this source contains numerous errors and repeats several inconsistent locations and dates of earlier references.
Notes
Emme's connection to Thomas Harding-3115 and Emma Chamblayne-1 have been removed due to corrected data. Thanks!
Please feel free to edit/correct/append as needed.
Acknowledgements
Thanks Gene Zubrinsky-1 for your excellent information on this profile.
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I changed the parentheses. I appreciate your attention to the details, but I think you might have a fundamental misunderstanding of the "Biography" section of a profile. Making changes to the Biography text has no effect on the WikiTree family database for that profile. I have added my sources to her father Roger Harding 's profile, where they properly belong. Hope that helps! Thanks again.
As per your advice, I've made a few suggestions to the profile managers of Emma Aldrich's page. There are nevertheless some items that I think remain appropriate to address to you.
1. Until such time as you decide to delete the list of Ambrose and Emme's children from this pagethough I highly doubt they'll ever appear together anywhere elseI would be extremely grateful if you would change "28 July (probably) 1611" to "28 July (probably 1611). The current placement of the close parenthesis is potentially misleading.
Second, there's the lack of explicitness that Isabella's surname appears as Harding in her and Ambrose's marriage record.
Finally, I'd still like to know the basis for the birth data you present for Roger and Isabella.
Thanks.
"If you make no other revisions to Emme Hardings page, Id be grateful if you would do the following for the sake of transparency and precision:
"(1) Change '8. Emm(e) Aldridge, bp. Langley Marish, Buckinghamshire, 28 July (probably) 1611' to read '8. ______ (illegible; undoubtedly Emme) Aldridge, bp. Langley Marish, Buckinghamshire, 28 July ____ (illegible; probably 1611).'
"(2) Make explicit that Isabellas surname appears as Harding in her and Rogers marriage record.
"I remain interested in knowing your rationale for the estimated birth years you provide for Roger and Isabella Hardingand, on Rogers page, the birth date and place."
Although neither Roger nor Isabella Hardings parentage is known, they undoubtedly descended from Roger Harding of Amersham, a member of the Lollard sect of religious dissenters in the early decades of the 1500s, and of Thomas Harding, also an Amersham Lollard.
Em(m)e (Harding) Aldridge's daughter Emm(e) [Emma] (number eight of thirteen), was baptized in Langley-Marish, Buckinghamshire, 28 July [1611] (see comment on her Wikitree page).