Fuller (Y-DNA)

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Status summary

As of December 30, 2015:

  • Fuller surname project contacted
  • Recruiting Fuller for Y Elite test

Background

Paper trail

Mayflower passengers Edward Fuller and Samuel Fuller were brothers, each a son of Robert Fuller and presumably his first wife, Sarah Dunkhorn (one of several alternative spellings). Edward and Samuel Fuller were both born in Redenhall, Norfolk, England. One of Edward's sons, also named Samuel Fuller, was also a passenger on the Mayflower.

Edward Fuller had two known sons who survived to adulthood:

  • Matthew Fuller, born about 1605 in England, traveled to Plymouth Colony later, by 1640
  • Samuel Fuller, born about 1608 in England, traveled aboard Mayflower

Samuel Fuller had one known son who survived to adulthood:

  • (Rev.) Samuel Fuller (II), born about 1629 in Plymouth Colony

Known brothers of Edward and Samuel (who remained in England) include:

  • Edmund Fuller
  • Thomas Fuller


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 that the Mayflower Fuller lineage belongs to the R1b-U106 Y-DNA haplogroup, which is quite common in Northwestern Europe. Planned Y Elite 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 4 October 2020, the Mayflower DNA Project is displaying nine individuals as patrilineal (all male line) descendants of Edward Fuller and two additional individuals as patrilineal descendants of his brother Samuel. It appears four of these individuals (all descendants of Edward Fuller) have taken advance Y-SNP testing (likely a Big Y test) and as a result, document where the family falls under U106>>S12025>FGC12021>S17339>S25007>FGC31905>FGC53757>BZ3170>Y85916. Several of the testers are showing other DNA results, indicating they fall under a subclade of FT14518.


NGS/WGS testers

  1. Three Y-DNA descendants of Samuel Fuller listed at wikitree profile for Samuel Fuller and Matthew Fuller
  2. The Fuller DNA Project currently does not publish their DNA results

External links

  • 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