Surname origin
Eda, always feminine, is rather a pet-form of Edith than a survival of Old English, Eda.
William Ede 1275 Subsidy Roll Worcestershire
A Dictionary of English Surnames by P H Reaney. OUP revised third edition 1997. 019860092-5.

EEDE, EDE or EADE? here are some of the spellings.
1771 EDE; 1772 EADE; 1774 EDE; 1775 EEDE; 1777 EDE; 1783 EDE; 1794 EDE.

All about Bury
by Lilian Brown

For more on the TRIBE family Margaret Tribe

Richard EDE ( - 1781) 'of Leominster', married Elizabeth CARTER ( - 1762)  at Amberley on the 30th  Sept 1735.
They had  children:-
• Elizabeth (1736 - ?)
• George (1736 - ?)
• Richard  (1738 - 1805) = Mary BUNN (1739 - 1818)
  
  • Elizabeth  (1772 - 1847) = William NYE (c.1776-<1841)
    • Elizabeth NYE (1796 - )
  • Richard  (1774 - 1818) = Catherine BRABY (c.1773 - 1834)
  • Anne  (1775 - 1856) = John KNIGHT  (1773 - 1855)
    • Thomas KNIGHT(1797- 1844) = Mary AYLING (c.1801 - 1840)
      • Ann KNIGHT(1829 - 1914) = George WEST (1824 - 1904)
        • Mary Ann WEST (1858 - 1887) =George COOPER (c.1862 - 1941)
          • Mary Ann COOPER (1887 - 1975) = Arthur Henry FITT (1890 - 1954)
            • Irene Mary FITT = Alfred John William COX
  • John  (1777 - 1846) = (1) Mary WEST (1775 - 1817) (2) Anna LINFIELD (c.1785 - 1858)
    • (2) Sarah  (1820-1892)
    • (2) Mary  (1821-1889) = John HAINES (c.1817-1886)
      • Anna HAINES (c.1849 - )
      • Mary HAINES (1851 - )
    • (2) John  (1823 - 1894) = Esther BURRELL (c.1827 - 1889)
    • (2) Emily  (1825-1887) = Sam GOATCHER (c.1824-1877)
  • Mary (c.1778-1851) = George TRIBE (c.1774-1856)
    • George TRIBE (1803-1878)
    • Maria TRIBE (1805 - )
    • Elizabeth TRIBE (1810 - )
    • Thomas TRIBE (1813 - )
    • Catherine TRIBE (1816 - )
    • Eliza TRIBE (1819 - )
  • James  (1783 - 1855) = Letitia COAKE (c.1787 - 1854)
    • Mary Ann (1817 - )
  • Edmund (c.1784-<1818)
• Mary (1741 - 1776?) = John UPPERTON -1776)
  The next stage is to find the baptism of Richard E(E)DE.
  It is not at Lyminster!