Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Eddy was born on 14 July 1771, in Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Hezekiah Eddy, was 39 and her mother, Susanna Shumway, was 37.
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Parents and Siblings
1732– Male
1733–1833 Female
Siblings (6)
1759– Male
1761– Female
1763– Female
1768–1830 Male
1771– Male
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World Events (8)
1776
Age 5
1776 · The Declaration to the King
Age 5
1803
Age 32
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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