• Born: 1855, The Cross, Camborne, Cornwall
• Christened: 9 Sep 1855, Camborne, Cornwall ¹
• Married: 1881, Hereford, Herefordshire, England ²
• Died: 29 Jun 1908, Three Mills Distillery, West Ham, Essex, England ^{3 4}

  Research Notes:

In 1901 William Eddy, aged 45, born in Camborne Cornwall, Inland Revenue Officer, and wife Ada L. Eddy, aged 38, born in St. Martin Hereford, were living at 10 Haniforth Rd., West Ham, Essex. With them were children: Leon (12) of Penzance, and Ethelwyn (3) of Stratford Essex.

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William Eddy died aged 53 years. ³

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CAMBORNE MAN BURNED TO DEATH.

Mr. William Eddy, brother of Mr. Chas. W. Eddy, rate collector of Camborne, met with a shocking death in a serious fire which occurred at the distillery of Messrs. J. and W. Nicholson, Bromley-by-Bow, London, on Tuesday. The fire broke out in the spirit room in the centre of the distillery, and when it had been extinguished the body of Mr. Eddy, who was in the Excise service, was found between two tanks. Deceased was just over fifty years of age, and leaves a widow and family.

Cornish Echo and Falmouth & Penryn Times, Friday, 3 Jul 1908, p. 7

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William Eddy of 87 Ham Park-road West Ham Essex died 29 June 1908 at Three Mills Distillery West Ham aforesaid. Administration London 22 July to Ada Laura Eddy, widow. Effects £522 3s. 2d. ⁴