When Bayse Manchester Eddy was born on 4 July 1771, in Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, his father, William Eddy, was 42 and his mother, Hadassah Sprague, was 39. He married Asenieth Honeywell about 1800, in Canada. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 2 August 1849, in Haldimand Township, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 78, and was buried in Grafton, Haldimand Township, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada.
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On June 9, 1772, colonists that are angry with the trade restrictions that Britain put them under, board the HMS Gaspee and set it ablaze. This was the first act of violence against the British on the North American continent.
Cornish: from the personal name Edy (pronounced ‘eedy’), a variant of Udy , from the Middle English personal name Ude, Udy, Latinized as Udo and Odo. It may represent Old French Eude (ancient Germanic Eudo, of uncertain etymology), whose usual Latin form is Eudo. This agrees with later evidence that the original pronunciation of the initial vowel of Udy was /y:/ (as in French tu), though in the 16th century it was sometimes unrounded to /i:/, spelled -e(e)-. It was later altered to Eddy.
English: variant of Eady .
English: perhaps from a shortened form of the Middle English personal name Edwy (Old English Ēadwīg, from ēad ‘prosperity, fortune’ + wīg ‘war’), which has not survived in that form as a surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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