First found in county Worcestershire, where the family can be traced back to 1197, when Edus was recorded on the Pipe Rolls under Henry III.

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• First settlers to North America
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To escape the unstable social climate in England of this time, many families boarded ships for the New World with the hope of finding land, opportunity, and greater religious and political freedom. Although the voyages were expensive, crowded, and difficult, those families that arrived often found greater opportunities and freedoms than they could have experienced at home. Many of those families went on to make significant contributions to the rapidly developing colonies in which they settled. Early North American records indicate many people bearing the name Edis were among those contributors: William Edis, who settled in Maryland in 1646; Jeremy Edis, who settled in Virginia in 1651; Thomas Eddows, who settled in Virginia in 1734; William Eddis, who was an American colonial official in 1777.

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