Hannah Reed Eddy

Brief Life History of Hannah Reed

When Hannah Reed Eddy was born about 1816, in Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, her father, William Eddy, was 39 and her mother, Sally Crossman, was 30. She married Nicholas Campbell Blake on 10 October 1839, in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 27 February 1895, in Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States.

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Family Time Line

Nicholas Campbell Blake
1818–1893
Hannah Reed Eddy
1816–1895
Marriage: 10 October 1839
Capt William Thomas Blake
1843–1921
Capt George Henry Blake
1849–1910
Walter H. Blake
1852–1924
Clara Reed Blake
1855–1935
Blake
1855–

Sources (34)

  • Hannah R Blake in household of Nicholas C Blake, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Hannah Reed Blake, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
  • Hannah Eddy, "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1925"

World Events (7)

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

1820 · Making States Equal

The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

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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