Edward Fuller

BAPTIZED:   4 September 1575, Redenhall, Norfolk, England , son of Robert Fuller and Sara Dunkhorn
DIED:   the first winter at Plymouth, sometime between January and April, 1620/1
MARRIED:   name unknown, came on the Mayflower

CHILDREN:

NAME	BIRTH	DEATH	MARRIAGE
Matthew	England	bet. 25 July and 22 August 1678, Barnstable, MA	Frances (---), probably in England
Samuel	c1608, England	31 October 1683, Barnstable, MA	Jane Lothrop, 8 April 1635, Scituate, MA

ANCESTRAL SUMMARY:

Edward Fuller was the son of Robert and Sara (Dunkhorn) Fuller of Redenhall, Norfolk, England.  Some accounts give his mother as Francis, but Francis appears to be Robert Fuller's second wife.  Robert's first wife Sara was buried 1 July 1584, and thus would have been the mother of Edward Fuller.  Edward Fuller's brother Samuel Fuller also came to America on the Mayflower.  Edward Fuller married, and moved to Leyden, Holland for a short time before coming to America.  

The name of his wife is not known.  James Savage, in his "Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England" says Edward Fuller's wife was named Ann, but there is no evidence to show this is in fact the case.

The following marriages of Edward Fullers were found in the parish register abstractions of the I.G.I. and one of them may very well be the Edward Fuller of the Mayflower:

• Amy Lee, 21 November 1596, Abinger, Surrey, England
• Ann Carpenter, 25 November 1597, Carlton, Bedford
• Thomasine Sheppard, 2 May 1597, St. Gregory, Norwich, Norfolk
• Joan Raven, 28 October 1599, Woodham Walter, Essex
• Elizabeth Buck, 25 July 1602, Great Finborough, Suffolk
• Barbara Colman, 10 June 1606, Chigwell, Essex
• Agnes Croucher, 14 January 1607, West Horsley, Surrey

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:

Edward Fuller, his wife, and his son Samuel came to America on the Mayflower.  They had lived in Leyden, Holland for a short period of time, but originally came from Redenhall, Norfolk, England.  Edward Fuller's father was a butcher by trade, and his brother Samuel was a doctor and deacon.  Edward's occupation, however, remains unknown.  He and his wife both died the first winter.

SOURCES:

Francis H. Fuller, "Early New England Fullers," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 55(1901):192-196.

Francis H. Fuller, "Fullers of Redenhall, England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 55(1901):410-414.

Bruce Campbell MacGunnigle, Robert M. Sherman and Robert S. Wakefield, "Was Matthew Fuller of Plymouth Colony a Son of Pilgrim Edward Fuller?", The American Genealogist 61(1986):194-199.

Bruce Campbell MacGunnigle, Mayflower Families for Five Generations: Edward Fuller, volume 4 (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1990).

Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History and Its People, 1620-1691 (Ancestry Publishing: Salt Lake City, 1986).

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