Fuller (Y-DNA)
Contents
Status summary
As of December 30, 2015:
- Fuller surname project contacted
- Recruiting Fuller patrilineal (all male line) descendants for NGS/WGS testing.
Background
Paper trail
Mayflower passengers Edward Fuller and Samuel Fuller were brothers, sons of Robert Fuller and presumably his first wife, Sarah Dunkhorn (one of several alternative spellings). Edward and Samuel Fuller were both baptized at Redenhall, Norfolk, England: Edward on 4 Sep 1585 and Samuel on 20 Feb 1580/1. One of Edward's sons, also named Samuel Fuller, was also a passenger on the Mayflower. The ancestry of this Fuller family can be found online at: Edward Fuller's Ancestors
Edward Fuller had two known sons who survived to adulthood:
- Matthew Fuller, born about 1605 in England, traveled to Plymouth Colony later, by 1640. His wife was named Frances (surname currently unknown) and they had five children: Elizabeth, Mary, Samuel, John and Anne.
- Samuel Fuller, born about 1608 in England, traveled aboard Mayflower. He married Jane Lothrop and they had five daughters and three sons:[1] Samuel, Thomas and John.
Samuel Fuller had one known son who survived to adulthood:
- (Rev.) Samuel Fuller (II), born about 1629 in Plymouth Colony. A 2019 Mayflower Descendant article claims where Samuel was the father of (Lt.) John Sprague, born bef Jun 1655. Samuel is said to have married twice, his first wife (identity unknown) was the father of Samuel (III) (c1658). Samuel married Elizabeth NICHOLS Bowen about 1665 and they[2] had five daughters and two sons: John and Isaac.
Presumed relatives of Edward and Samuel (who later emigrated to New England) include:
- Thomas Fuller, a brother to Edward and Samuel, was baptized Redenhall 13 Dec 1573. He married there 22 Jan 1598/9 "Audrie Gylman". They are said to be the parents of Robert Fuller of Salem & Rehoboth, MA as well as (Lt.) Thomas Fuller of Woburn & Salem, MA.
- (Ens.) Thomas Fuller was bp. at Redenhall 20 Jan 1619/20, son of Ralph Fuller. The exact relationship between this family and the family of Robert Fuller is still to be discovered. Ens. Fuller moved to Dedham, Mass and has a number of Y-DNA descendants.
- ↑ They also had an child, sex unknown, who died young.
- ↑ It is possible one or more of these children may have been by Samuel's first wife.
DNA Results R-Y85916
Previous Y-DNA testing[1]
Previous Y-STR testing through the Mayflower Society DNA Project[2], including descendants of both Edward and Samuel Fuller, has found where the Mayflower Fuller lineage belongs to the R1b-U106 Y-DNA haplogroup, which is quite common in Northwestern Europe. Planned NGS/WGS testing will be able place the Fuller lineage more precisely within the broader R1b-U106 haplogroup and may be able to identify individual-level markers that indicate descent from either Edward or Samuel.
NGS/WGS testing
As of 21 May 2021, the Mayflower DNA Project and the Fuller - Family Finder Project are displaying nine individuals as patrilineal (all male line) descendants of Edward Fuller, two additional individuals as patrilineal descendants of his brother Samuel, as well as a total of twelve individuals who likely descend from Robert Fuller of Salem & Rehoboth.[3] These results document where the Fuller family of Redenhall, Norfolk fall under U106>>S12025>FGC12021>S17339>S25007>FGC31905>FGC53757>BZ3170>Y85916. In addition, they document where some descendants of Edward Fuller[4] fall under a subclade of Y85916, namely FT14518.[5]
NGS/WGS testers
Also see Fuller Big Y results
Other Fuller Families
Descendants of Robert Fuller (c1615) of Salem & Rehoboth and Eli Fuller (1766) of Pennsylvania have also tested positive for Y85916, so they are fairly closely related to Edward and Samuel Fuller.
- ↑ Three Y-DNA descendants of Samuel Fuller listed at wikitree profile for Samuel Fuller and Matthew Fuller
- ↑ The Fuller DNA Project currently does not publish their DNA results
- ↑ Robert is said to have been a nephew to Edward and Samuel, believed to be a son of their brother, Thomas Fuller.
- ↑ Edward, Samuel, Samuel, Matthew.
- ↑ Descendants of Robert Fuller fall under two different subclades of Y85916, some fall under FT67161 while others fall under Y98567.
External links
- Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, Second edition 1995, 1996. pp. 58-61.
- Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Passenger References (from contemporary records & scholarly journals, [www.stewartbooks.com Stewart Publishing & Printing], Canada. Second edition 2015
- The Fuller Society
Edward Fuller
- MacGunnigle, Bruce Campbell, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: vol. 4 Edward Fuller General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA. 2006
- Blauvelt, Don, "Edward Fuller of the Mayflower And His Unnamed Wife: Corrections and Observations", The Mayflower Quarterly Magazine, Spring 2020 [vol. 86, No. 1], pp. 32-35
- Wikipedia article on Edward Fuller
- Edward Fuller on FindAGrave
Samuel Fuller
- Radasch, Katharine W. & Arthur H. Radasch (rev. by Margaret H. Stover and Robert S. Wakefield), Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: vol: 10 Samuel Fuller General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA. 1996
- Wikipedia article on Samuel Fuller
- Samuel Fuller on FindAGrave
