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Just had a look at some old English or Anglo Saxon.
Ead and the plural Eade means one or all of the following words
rich, wealthy, blessed, happy
on the marriage certificates could mean blessed as in the marriage was blessed.
Midgley, Fowler, Chadwick, Kilvington, Routledge, Hewitt, Stevenson, Ward, Waite, Binks , Buck, Pearson, Stanley, Firth, Child, Hobson, Rogers, all Leeds and Yorkshire for centuaries except the Routledges from Wigton, Cumbria and Middlesbrough. Related to McAllisters of Wilsontown