When Ernest Eden was born in 1880, in Walsall, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Eden, was 42 and his mother, Ester Stokes, was 41.
English: from the Middle English personal name Edun, Old English Ēadhūn, composed of the elements ēad ‘prosperity, wealth’ + hūn ‘bear-cub’.
English: habitational name from Castle Eden or Eden Burn in County Durham, both of which derive from a British river name meaning ‘water’, recorded by the Greek geographer Ptolemy in the 2nd century in the form Ituna.
East Frisian, North German, and Dutch (Groningen): genitivized patronymic from the personal name Ede or Edo.
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