Edward Fuller b. 04 Sep 1575 Redenhall Parish, Norfolk, England d. Aft 11 Jan 1621 Plymouth, Massachusetts

1575 - Aft 1621 (> 46 years)

Name	Edward Fuller [1]
Born	04 Sep 1575	Redenhall Parish, Norfolk, England [1]
Gender	Male
Immigration	1620	Plymouth, Massachusetts [1]
Immigration	Mayflower
Died	Aft 11 Jan 1621	Plymouth, Massachusetts [1]
Person ID	I22637	Jerry Milo Johnson
Last Modified	29 Mar 2015

Father	Robert Nicholas Fuller, b. Oct 1543, Redenhall Parish, Norfolk, England , d. 23 May 1614, Redenhall Parish, Norfolk, England (Age ~ 70 years)
Relationship	Natural
Mother	Sarah Dunkhorn, b. Abt 1552, Starston, Harleston, England , d. 01 Jul 1584, Redenhall Parish, Norfolk, England (Age ~ 32 years)
Relationship	Natural
Married	29 Jan 1571	Starston, Harleston, England [1]
Family ID	F8097	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Anne Hopkins, b. 1577, d. 1620, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age 43 years)

Married Y [1]

Children

	1. Matthew Fuller, b. Oct 1603, Harleston, Redenhall Parish, Norfolk, England , d. 22 Aug 1678, Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts (Age ~ 74 years) [Natural]
	2. Samuel Fuller, b. 08 Apr 1612, Egerton, Kent County, England , d. 31 Oct 1683, Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts (Age 71 years) [Natural]

Family ID F8096 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Event Map

	Born - 04 Sep 1575 - Redenhall Parish, Norfolk, England
	Immigration - Mayflower - 1620 - Plymouth, Massachusetts
	Died - Aft 11 Jan 1621 - Plymouth, Massachusetts

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Notes

Lived in Leiden Holland, the Netherlands, with second wife.
Edward and his wife came to the U.S.A. on the Mayflower in 1620 alongwith their son Samuel. Edward and his wife died during the first winterinPlymouth. Their son Samuel was raised by his uncle Dr. Samuel Fuller.
Francis H. Fuller, "Early New England Fullers," New England Historicaland Genealogical Register 55(1901):192-196.

Edward was born about 1575 and his baptism took place on September 4th, 1575 in Redenhall, Norfolk, England. Edward's father was Robert Fuller and his mother was Sarah Dunkhorn. He had a brother named Samuel. He was the older of the two children. He had a half-sister named Susannah. He died in 1621 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

* General Notes
o 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.

Edward Fuller's name appears on the "Mayflower Compact" which was drawn up just previous to the landing at Cape Cod on November, 1620. He died at Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, the next spring between Jan and April, 1621. His wife, whose name may have been Ann, died about the same time, leaving their young son Samuel (and Matthew?), who came with them, an orphan.

Edward Fuller has been generally identified as the son of Robert and Sara (Dunkhorn) Fuller, baptized on 4 September 1575 at Redenhall, Norfolk. However, a number of genealogical scholars and Mayflower researchers, including Robert S. Wakefield, Robert Sherman, Robert Leigh Ward, Robert C. Anderson, Eugene Stratton, Leslie Mahler, and others, have all questioned the identification over the past couple of decades. The current identification is based upon circumstantial evidence only: the fact that the names Samuel, Edward, and Ann occur within the same family; and the fact the father is identified as a butcher. Thomas Morton, writing in 1637, says that Samuel Fuller was the son of a butcher. The name Matthew also occurs in this Redenhall Fuller family. The counter-evidence is primarily that the ages for the Fullers appear to be too old, when compared to their marriage dates, the ages of their spouses, and with the births of their children.

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. None-the-less, 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.
So, in truth, very little is known about Edward Fuller. His English origins and the name of his wife are widely disputed. What is known is that he, his wife, and his son Samuel came on the Mayflower in 1620 to Plymouth. A single Leiden judicial document mentions Edward Fuller, and proves that he, like brother Samuel Fuller, were living in Leiden. Both Edward and his wife died the first winter, but son Samuel (who would have been about 12), survived. An older brother, Matthew, had stayed behind, and came to America later.

Children:
1. Matthew FULLER b: in England
2. Samuel FULLER b: ABT 1608 in England

Sources

[S292] Genealogy of Neal Frank Carrier, Neal Frank Carrier, (Name: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~carrier/ifamily/index.html;), http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~carrier/ifamily/HTMLFiles/HTMLFiles_03/Edmond_Ingalls_P2153.html (Reliability: 3).