When Gawen Eddy was born on 17 February 1721, in Woodbridge, Woodbridge Township, Middlesex, New Jersey, British Colonial America, his father, John Eddy, was 40 and his mother, Elizabeth Edwards, was 39. He married Sarah Cotheal from 1746 to 1759, in Woodbridge Township, Middlesex, New Jersey, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 9 sons. He died in 1781, in Bethel Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1771: Bedford, New Jersey Colony, British Colonial Amerida 1776: Bedford, New Jersey, United States
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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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