Edward Fuller

Edward Fuller

Male 1575 - 1621  (45 years)


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  • Name Edward Fuller 
    Birth 4 Sep 1575  Norfolkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christening 4 Sep 1575  Norfolkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Special Mayflower 
    FSID LZLK-XYP 
    _DNA yDNA HAPLOGROUP: R-M269 (Y85916) 
    Death 11 Jan 1621  Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4531  footsteps
    Last Modified 1 Jul 2025 

    Father Robert Fuller,   b. Oct 1543, Norfolkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 May 1614, Norfolkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Sarah Dunkhorn,   b. 1550, Norfolkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Jul 1584, Norfolkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 34 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 29 Jan 1572  Norfolkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2476  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Anna Hopkins,   b. 22 Apr 1577, Norfolkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Jan 1621, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 43 years) 
    Marriage Jan 1621  Norfolkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Matthew Fuller,   b. Abt 1605   d. 25 Jul 1678, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F3146  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 1 Jul 2025 

  • Notes 


    • DEATH: Sometime the first winter at Plymouth, likely between January and March 1621.
      yDNA HAPLOGROUP: R-M269 (Y85916)
      Edward Fuller has been generally identified as the son of Robert and Sara (Dunkhorn) Fuller, baptized on 4 September 1575 at Redenhall, Norfolk. Thomas Morton, writing in 1637, says that Samuel Fuller (brother of Edward Fuller) was the son of a butcher. The name Matthew also occurs in this Redenhall Fuller family.

      The name of Edward Fuller's wife has not been discovered. In James Savage's Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (1860-1862), Edward Fuller's wife was given as "Ann". However, there are no American or English records which give her name. I suspect James Savage may have made a simple typographical error: Mayflower passenger Edward Tilley had a wife Ann; or perhaps he was thinking of their sister Ann Fuller. Nonetheless, numerous sources published after 1860 have utilized Savage's Genealogical Dictionary, and so the identification of Ann can be found in numerous other books and online resources.

      Very little is known about Edward Fuller. What is known is that he, his wife, and his son Samuel came on the Mayflower in 1620 to Plymouth. An older brother, Matthew, had stayed behind, and came to America later.

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