Only just found your post because it did not refer directly to Eccleshall surname but I do a search from time to time.
I am doing one name study of Eccleshall and can confirm all the information that others have replied with.
Thomas Stringer's' mother Harriett (formerly Eccleshall) died in 1850 and Thomas (the youngest child) was adopted by Thomas Eccleshalll (Harriet's brother) and Ann (formerly Woolley).
