SummerCrush I have been looking back over your thread and these previous posts from Heywood
Quote“It looks as though Albert and Thomas are the same person.
He may have preferred Thomas as a name or changed it for some reason. Sometimes names were changed after a police incident or similar.”
“I have also previously mentioned this man in 1871 2521/9/10
Thomas Eddy, mason’s labourer b Bath and lodging in Bristol. He is listed as unmarried and has been transcribed as 28yrs but, to me, that is doubtful on the census page.”
“I was just putting the idea forward that, for some reason, Albert who was Sarah Hannah’s husband, might have used a different forename for some reason.”
I have to agree with Heywood the unmarried
THOMAS EDDY age 38 born Bath Somerset lodging
44 Temple Street Bristol on 1871 census has similarities to the
ALBERT EDDY born Bath Somerset who married Sarah Hannah Chapple/el…….there appears to be NO other census that I can see for a Thomas Eddy born Bath Somerset other than the 1871 census

The question is did
Sarah Hannah Eddy (nee Chappel) leave her husband
Albert Eddy sometime after birth/death of their daughter
Mary Ann Eddy(b1863-d1864)
or was it
Albert Eddy who left his wife Sarah ( a possible relationship with Henry John Coleman, she is living with him as his wife 1871 and her two children Philip & Eliza Eddy (mmn Chappel) from 1861 census have been dittoed as having the surname Coleman (1871)
Then for whatever reason her husband Albert Eddy may have changed his christian name to Thomas Eddy thereafter???
Sarah Hannah Eddy married Henry John Coleman in
DEC qtr. 1877 -
do you have this marriage certificate? Was she noted as a widow???
Mentioned by Heywood a death entry for
Thomas Eddy age 44 (1833) DEC 1877 Bristol As mentioned does seem a coincidence that
Sarah Hannah Eddy married in the same quarter and year as the above death entry of a Thomas Eddy - again perhaps another coincidence!
If it were my family just to rule him in or out I would be considering obtaining the 1877 death certificate of Thomas Eddy to see what it says it would be interesting as to who the informant was - perhaps a family member

If you ever unravel the mystery of your
Eliza Eddy born 1861 Bristol as to who her mother was please come back and let us know
