On March 13^th, 1817 an event of some note occurred.  Two marriages happened in the same place where all four participants had the same surname: Fuller.  In fact, both the men had exactly the same names, both Christian and surname.   Thomas Fuller married Martha Fuller and Thomas Fuller married Elizabeth Fuller.  Brother and sister married sister and brother, but they were also all cousins.  Furthermore, the parents of Thomas and Martha also had had the same surnames at marriage.

According to the Marris children, Joseph Fuller, granduncle to Thomas, the present Lord of the Manor, built the first Meeting House in 1727.  Louise Fuller recounts how, during the Civil War, the Fullers had not yet come to Aston.  So, the Fullers will have migrated to Aston sometime between those two dates.  Aston may have appealed partly because it offered a quiet spot to build the Meeting House.  As the Marris children observed, owing to troublous times the Meeting was situated in the most retired part of the village, embosomed in trees. Shutters were attached to the windows, fastened by pullies withinside.

By the time of the Slade letters, three main Fuller establishments exist at Aston: Aston Farm, Copse Style, and Filberts.  The Lord of the Manor, old Thomas, lived at Filberts, his son, Thomas, husband of Martha, ran Aston Farm, while his daughter, Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Humfrey, ran Copse Style.  A succession of children lived at both Aston Farm and Copse Style.  Sadly, however, when the story begins, Mrs Elizabeth Fuller has lived a widow since 1833.  A terrible loss, she had found him all that a woman could desire as she tells her American cousin in 1843.