Fuller Family

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Comment by Robert Jefferson Bartholomew, Jr on January 10, 2012 at 10:16am

 

This is interesting - I guess it comes under the topic of "forensic genealogy."

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/09/justice/washington-cold-case/index.ht...

Comment by Janel Rose on September 20, 2011 at 7:38pm

searching for Donna Fuller, born in Oregon 1939-40 and lived in Colorado in 1961...anyone knowledgeable about Fuller Family genealogy in Oregon???? thanks....

Comment by John Barrett Robb on July 14, 2010 at 12:26pm

Thanks for the reference to the John Lothrop book, Angela (incidentally, I use the "o" spelling simply because it's the predominant one in the Plymouth records, even though "Lathrop" is more common today). I see from the Mayflower... Five Generations: Edward Fuller book that Hannah married Nicholas Bonham, and they relocated to Piscatawy NJ.

I'd be glad to give you a few ideas about researching your Scotch-Irish ancestors if you'd like to contact me off-list. If you Google my full name it should bring up my website, and you can e-mail me through the link in the upper right menu bar of each page.

Comment by Angela Stewart on July 3, 2010 at 9:53am

While I have always had an interest in family history it has only been in the last ten years or so that I was able to devote very much time to research and I have been most involved with some "brick walls" that occur about 4 generations back in a couple of my lines. My connection to the Fullers was found accidentally by my uncle who visited Salt Lake about 20 years ago and entered a name and then found himself buried in information. I went back and read your earlier post "The Mayflower Fullers" and I have to confess that parts of your discussion with the other gentleman went over my head totally. I am descended from Samuel and Jane Lathrop's daughter, Hannah, who married Nicholas Bonham. (All this according to LDS records.) Incidentally, did you know that a book was written about Rev. John Lathrop? The title is Exiled - The Story of John Lathrop, by Helene Holt. I would also like to know more about your research into Scots-Irish (or Scotch-Irish) genealogy. This is an area where I am hitting the wall, so to speak. I am descended from Dunbars, McLaughlins, Oliphants and, on my father's side, Follis, which I am told is a Scottish name. Of course, once I get beyond the 1850 census, I am unable to figure out where to look next. My McLaughlin ancestor was interviewed in 1880 as an "old settler" in Marshall County, IL and gave a tantalizing abridgement of his family history - he said his family migrated to Ireland after being persecuted as Covenanters (he even names the chief persecutor, Claverhouse) and then, 100 years later, came to America. He claimed that his ancestors "fought in the Revolution and were Indian fighters in Kentucky" yet doesn't mention their names. I found a distant cousin (through the wonders of the internet) and he says that our McLaughlin ancestors were actually O'Melaghlin's from Ireland. My McLaughlin, Oliphant and Follis ancestors came to IL from VA via a few years stay in KY. My Dunbar ancestor, Stephen, came from OH and listed his parents birthplace as PA but I have no idea of what their names were. Do you have any knowledge of these surnames or, perhaps, some advice on where I should look next?

Comment by John Barrett Robb on July 2, 2010 at 7:29pm

Angela, if you are also descended through Samuel2 (Edward1)'s son, Lt. John3 Fuller (rather than through his other son Thomas3), who married Mehitable Rowley, then you also have a descent from Edward1's other son, Capt. Matthew Fuller. I've included some material on Capt. Matthew in my old thread, "The Mayflower Fullers".

My line continues with John's son, Lt. Thomas, and his son Ebenezer who removed to HaddamCT, and later to HebronCT, and subsequent Fullers flow thence through RutlandCoVT, JamestownNY, and finally Evanston and Chicago. My grandmother was a Fuller, and my mother's middle name was Fuller.

I've done very little real primary records research of my own on the earliest New England generations, although I've found some very interesting material on the Rev. John Lothrop's English background in secondary sources (which you may have found too). However, I've exhaustively researched my Fullers back to 5th generation descendant Mr. Roger Fuller, the keeper of a fashionable tavern in HebronCT, and have in the process, picked up an interesting pattern of Fuller family characteristics and traits which I can trace to descendants alive today (this only works because I also know a lot about all my ancestors back for the last four generations, so that I know also where these traits could not have come from).

Comment by Angela Stewart on July 1, 2010 at 11:08am

I have enjoyed following this discussion and am greatly impressed with your knowledge of the Fuller family, John. I am descended from Edward's son Samuel and his wife Jane Lathrop down through the Bonhams who moved to central IL in the early 1800's. There is a Bonham Cemetery in Marshall County, IL just north of Sparland.

Comment by John Barrett Robb on June 29, 2010 at 6:35pm

Thanks for your response, Krista. I am not an expert on the Thomas Fuller line, so I can't really offer any specific comments on your ancestry. I tend to be very evidence-centric, so I was hoping that you might have discovered something new which might bear on the first two generations.

I do find it interesting the way your line remained in the suburbs of Boston for so long, and then began to bounce back and forth to Maine. Were your Fullers perhaps sea captains or merchants involved with fishing or trade?

I too, had a Fuller grandmother, but my Fullers, who began in Plymouth (I'm descended from both sons of Edward of the Mayflower) followed the typical route for such people in subsequent generations, first westwards into Connecticut, then up the Connecticut River to western VT in the wake of the Revolution, and from thence to NY, and eventually (in the case of my family) Chicago, where both my grandmother and mother were born.

Because your Fuller line is likely to be of interest to others (if this GW thing ever gets off the ground), I've turned it into a (threaded) Discussion, so that it can readily be expanded on, and so that it remains visible near the top of the page.

I should have done this with my initial post, in fact. IMO it's nearly always best to start a Discussion if you anticipate even a single response to your post, and to leave the comment wall for posts which are likely to be relevant to all or many of the members. Comments aren't threaded, and if they are much used, they soon scroll off into oblivion. I've got my GW groups set to require my approval before comments get posted, while anyone can start a Discussion.

Regards,

John Robb

Comment by Krista Ann Ellis Argiropolis on June 27, 2010 at 7:39pm

John, I look forward to your response and thoughts on my work. If you find I've erred on any of this, please let me know. I am happy to share my work but also willing to take instruction/correction.

Comment by Krista Ann Ellis Argiropolis on June 27, 2010 at 7:38pm

Ethel Burnham Fuller (b. 1903; d. 1953 in Sanford, Maine)
Edward Hall Fuller (b. 1874 in Newton, Massachusetts; d. 1932 in Sanford Maine)
Horace B. Fuller (b. 1836 in Dedham, Massachusetts; d. 1899 in Boston, Massachusetts)
Timothy Filler (b. 1806 in Dover, Massachusetts; d. 1882 Lincoln, Maine)
David Fuller II (b. 1764 in Dover, Massachusetts; d. 1824 in Dedham, Massachusetts)
Lt. David Fuller (b. 1731; d. 1805 in Dedham, Massachusetts)
David Fuller (b. 1704; d. 1777 in Dedham, Massachusetts)
Thomas Fuller (b. 1662; d. 1734 in Dedham, Massachusetts)
Thomas Fuller (b. 1619 in Redenhall, England; d. 1690 in Dedham, Massachusetts)
Rafe (Ralph?) Fuller (b. 1584; d. 1649 Redenhall, England)

Note: If someone died in the same town they were born in, I only named their town after the date of death. Hope that makes sense.

Comment by Krista Ann Ellis Argiropolis on June 27, 2010 at 7:30pm

Well, it seems that GW likes to eat responses, as I had written out a nice response to you, John, and GW opted to only post the last two lines. Perhaps there's a text character limit for responses?

My grandmother is the nearest Fuller and the person I started my search with, so I will start with her and work backwards to Rafe Fuller, going up the paternal line. I will break up my post a little so as to be sure that GW doesn't lose my post again.

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