Brief Life History of Eunice
When Eunice Eddy was born in 1782, in Rehoboth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Preserved Eddy, was 34 and her mother, Lydia Davis, was 28. She married Stephen Chase in 1804, in Somerset, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons.
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- Eunice Eddy, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Eunice Eddy Chace in entry for Elisha Chace, "Massachusetts Town Deaths Index, ca. 1640-1961"
- Unice Chace in entry for Noah Chace and Mary E. Hathaway, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
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Name Meaning
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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