eldest son/daughter/brother/child etc• A week later villagers found the corpse of his eldest daughter, 12, by the creek.• But then he had been wrong about his eldest son.• He also served as the steward of the estates and affairs of Sitamun, the king's eldest daughter.• Inheritable property has still tended to go to the eldest son.• He was the eldest son, his two brothers having been killed in the Great War.• It implied, first, primogeniture amongst males, i.e. inheritance by the eldest son, if there was one.• In the years that followed, Mary's eldest daughter went to Biblecollege to train for the missionfield.• If only his eldest sons wouldn't smoke.