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- Before this generation, the family did not have a consistent surname. Therefore, Thomas is the earliest person with this name.
——
In the time of William the Conqueror, Adderbury was called Edburgbcrie, a name strikingly suggestive of its having an origin closely identified with the Ead or Ed family.
——
THE name Edson is of Anglo-Saxon origin. It is a com-
bination of two words : Ed, a variation of the spelling
of the ancient term Ead ; and son, an explanatory suffix,
establishing the relationship of a child to a parent known
as Ed.
Ead, as an Anglo-Saxon noun, signifies wealth, prosper-
ity, happiness, joy, or bliss. In the early poetical com-
positions of the Anglo-Saxons, ead is the initial syllable of
such compounds as eadfuma, author of prosperity; cad-
giefa, giver of prosperity; eadluje, love; and eadwela,
riches. It has similar precedence in compound names, as
is shown in Eadmund, a protector of riches; Eadweard, a
guardian of property ; and Eadivin, a gainer of happiness.
——
The invasion and occupation by the Saxons of that
part of Britain, now known as Oxfordshire, began about the
end of the sixth century. In the ninth, the fierce con-
flicts between the Saxons made it the scene of many bloody
struggles for the possession of its territory. The city of
Oxford, it is said, was four times reduced to ashes during
the time of this warfare.
——
Of the ancient church records there is now neither trace
nor tradition. Hence there are no available means by
which to elicit any knowledge of the names of the wor-
shippers who congregated beneath the high-vaulted roof of
the stately sanctuary during the first four centuries of its
existence.
Moreover, it should be remembered that searches for
data to determine lines of descent from English ancestors
cannot be prosecuted at the present time with any measure
of success farther back than the century preceding that in
which Thomas Edson had his birth, who probably was
born about twelve years before the discovery of America
by Columbus. As Cussans asseverates, "except in a few
rare instances, it is utterly impossible to trace a pedigree
beyond the time of Richard the Second," (1377-1399).
——
One of the landed gentry of Adderbury, contemporary
with Thomas Edson, was John Bustard, whose immediate
ancestors were descendants of the ancient family of Bus-
tard, of Nether-Ex, in Devonshire. [2]
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Old Dead Relatives
Abt 1425 - ?
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