The Beans of Carroll County NH

WONALANCET
SANDWICH, NEW HAMPSHIRE

My 6th great grandparents, David Bean (1717-1770) and his wife Mary Judkins (1715-1774) (who were 2nd cousins), came from the very large Bean family of Rockingham County, New Hampshire, which established a strong military history, descending from John MacBean, Scottish prisoner of the English Civil War who was sold into slavery upon arrival in the New World.

David was born in raised in Brentwood, son to John Bean of Exeter, and great grandson to the aforementioned John MacBean.  He and Mary Judkins (his 2nd cousin) had ten kids in Brentwood, and around 1768 they moved to Sandwich, in Carroll County (then part of Strafford County).  I wonder what precipitated the move to Sandwich (which was 75 miles north, and an over 12 hour horse and buggy ride).

Upon arrival in Sandwich, they discovered it was mostly forest at the time, and no roads.  It required much labor to get through it, and David's 18 year old son, Moody, was reportedly the one to carry 90 pounds of seed (wheat and corn) on his back.  The Bean family joined the Free Will Baptist Church.  They built their homes with logs that they used once cutting down the trees in the forest.

When David died in 1770, his children were ranging in ages of 11 to 30.  All seven of his sons fought in the Revolutionary War (Josiah, James, David Jr., Samuel, John, Moody and Benjamin).

After the War, only a few of David's children stayed in Sandwich, and the rest moved to neighboring Moultonboro, and some descendants ended up in neighboring Tuftonboro.  Several Bean Cemeteries are located in these towns, and they are the final resting places to David's many descendants, although I'm not sure where David and his wife Mary are buried - likely somewhere in Sandwich, so I've created FindAGrave memorials for each of them with burial unknown, for now.

Below are handy FindAGrave links to the various cemeteries named for the Bean family:

Bean Cemetery, Bean Road, Moultonboro (David's sons David Jr., Moody, John and families)
Bean Burial Ground, Sodom Road, Tuftonboro  (David's son Josiah's son Andrew and family)
Bean Graveyard, Tibbetts Road, Tuftonboro (David's youngest son Benjamin and family)

Their son, David, Jr. (1743-1817), was my 5th great grandfather.  He stayed in Sandwich, where his wife Abigail Moody and he had eleven children, including my 4th great grandmother, Sally Bean-Fuller (1781-1840), who moved south to Lowell Massachusetts with her husband John Fuller, indirect descendant of Edward Fuller of the Mayflower, and also including Nicholas Bean, whose wife Lydia Brown may have been related to my Brown family of Moultonboro, and whose daughter Rebecca most likely married into my Elliott family of Sandwich.  Some oral histories claim that Sally's father was actually Moody Bean, and not his brother, David, Jr.  I don't see records going in either direction, so I'm assuming that it's David Jr., given that more oral histories point in that direction.  The FindaGrave link for David Jr. has a biography that omits Sally, and instead declares that his daughter was Mary Bean that married John Fuller (which error stems from other family tree histories which also erroneously state that Sally was Moody's daughter).

Given that David Bean, Jr. is buried in Bean Cemetery of Moultonboro, he is believed to have been the same David Bean that was an early town founder, and grantee of property when the first lots were being divided up, even though David appears in Sandwich Census records in 1790, 1800 and 1810:

Moultonborough First Town Charter
1763 Votes for Land Grants
David Bean & John Adams

Moultonboro Lot Map of 1763
David Bean and John Adams shared a 100 acre lot

Cleared Acreage by David Bean 1769
State Papers Volume 29
Masonian Papers General p 393

Below is a pedigree chart I created, showing descent from John MacBean of these various Bean families of New Hampshire (some people have been omitted for ease of visual):

The Fullers of Lowell Massachusetts

My 4th great grandparents were John Fuller (1773-1842) of Campton New Hampshire and Sarah "Sally" Bean (1781-1841) of Sandwich, New Hampshire.  John Fuller was born to Samuel Fuller and Lois Andrews of Campton.  I believe that this is the same Samuel, born 1733 in East Haddam, CT, who is the proven 5th generation descendant of Edward Fuller of the Mayflower, because but I have yet to establish proof that this Samuel was father to my John Fuller, with the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.

Further complicating my quest to get Mayflower certification, I am unable to verify that this John is truly my ancestor (through my proven ancestor Samuel Bean Fuller), as I cannot locate a birth record for Samuel.  I'm currently looking for assistance with baptismal records for John's children, including Samuel (although I don't think they were religious).

As for John's wife Sally, there are some records of a "Mary" Bean being born in 1774 in New Hampshire, but I don't think there is a connection, and some Fuller researchers have maintained that John's wife was named Mary, but I disagree, because (a) Sally is buried next to John at Old English Cemetery in Lowell, MA, and Sally's gravestone inscription references this John as her husband, and (b) the marriage record clearly shows John (Jonathan) & Sally's marriage had occurred in 1801 in Moultonborough, NH. 

As for Sally's parentage, I had understood from various online trees (which are always worth scrutiny) that her parents were David Bean Jr. (1744-1817) and Abigail Moody (1745-1818) of Sandwich, NH, whom I write about in a separate post of the Beans.  But in looking at Henrietta Chapman's notes, she said that Sally Bean's parents were Moody Bean (1750-1834) and Sarah Adams.  Moody was David Jr.'s younger brother, so it's quite possible that Henrietta was correct on this one.  But I cannot find any records which verify Sally's parentage.

John & Sally had 11 children together, two sets of these kids being twins. The 1810 Census appears to have them living at New Holderness, just south of Campton, NH.

The Move from Moultonboro to Peacham

In 1817 or so, they moved from Moultonborough, New Hampshire to Peacham, Vermont (90 miles away), where they ran a farm on MacBean Road near John's brother Bethuel, who had moved there about 20 years prior.  John's elder sister, Mary Mercer Fuller-Wheeler, had settled in nearby Danville, VT by 1790.  According to the family, John's son, Samuel Bean Fuller, didn't move to Peacham with the family.  He stayed behind in New Hampshire, living on his uncle Samuel Bean's farm in Meredith.  John moved his family to Lowell, Massachusetts in 1836.  Around the same time, his brother Bethuel left Peacham for West Bloomfield, Michigan.  I wonder what happened in Peacham in the 1830s to cause both brothers to leave their farms behind?   According to a Peacham historian, farming in Peacham was always hard, but the 1830's were a period of relative prosperity and the sheep boom had not yet ended. Indeed Peacham reached the zenith of its population in 1840. The westward migration started in the 1840's. There were many Fuller farms in Caledonia County, Vermont at that time, and some preliminary research indicates that many were descendants of other colonial Fullers than this line.

The Move to Lowell, Mass

From 1836-1839 (per Lowell City Directories), the Fuller family lived in a boarding house at 38 Merrimack Street in downtown Lowell, near the corner of Central Street, John worked as a stone layer.

FORMER SITE OF FULLER HOME
38 MERRIMACK STREET
LOWELL, MASS.

By 1840, the Fullers had moved to a boarding house at Low Street.  John and Sally died in 1842 and 1841, respectively.  John died of bladder disease.  They are buried at Old English Cemetery in Lowell.   Below is a photo Sally's gravestone, which appears to have held up, but John's, likely in the vicinity, didn't survive due to the fact that many old graves in the area were made of marble, which is a poor choice for braving the harsh New England weather.

Here is a brief summary of collected, and ongoing, research regarding the children of John & Sally, and two sets of these 11 kids were twins: 

1.  Moody B. Fuller (1802-1855) was born in New Hampshire (probably Moultonborough).  Since this was John's first born son, I'm thinking that Moody may have been a nickname for John.  Sally's mother's maiden name was Moody, so this is likely the source of the name.  There are 1830 and 1840 Census entries for his very unique name (and the age seems to match) in Smithfield, Rhode Island, and was married to a Mary Leonard (of the Taunton Leonards, whom I'm separately related to) with several children, so for now it makes sense.  He worked as a scythe grinder (1855 census) and died of consumption in Blackstone, Mass (10 miles north of Smithfield).  He is buried in Millville Cemetery, Mass.  Moody's death record in Blackstone does list his parents as John and Sally.  Henrietta Chapman, a Fuller researcher who died in the the 1930s, had heard that Moody 'went to Kentucky', but I haven't found any records to support this.

Millville Cemetery
Millville, MA

2.  Hannah M. Fuller (1808-1887), according to her death record was born in Holderness, New Hampshire (although some sources claim Peacham, VT).  In 1830 in Peacham she married Hiram Russell of New Hampshire.  They had three children (Charles, Edward, and Helen) in Lowell, Mass., but by 1840 were living in Lawrence, where they ran a large boarding house at 633 Haverhill Street (a house Hannah bequeathed to her eldest child Charles F. Russell).  I have yet to find a birth record that definitively links her to her father John, but she was buried at Belvedere Cemetery in Lawrence with her husband and children.

Russell Boarding House (1880s)
633 Haverhill Street
Lawrence, MA

3.  Abner Fuller (1810-1861) was a painter born either in Holderness NH (like his older sister) or Peacham, VT, where one census record and his death record both claim, and died in Chelsea, Massachusetts.  His parents are listed on his death record as John & Sarah Fuller.  This notation first came to me from Henrietta Chapman's diaries, until I was able to establish records myself.  He is not to be confused with an Abner M. Fuller who was born in 1813 in Mass (who died in Ohio in 1886).  Abner was married to Lucinda Pulsifer in Dorchester, 1832.  I cannot seem to find their burial locations to date.  Henrietta claimed that Abner also went to Kentucky, just like his brother Moody, but again cannot find any records for this.  Perhaps someone was researching the above Ohio Abner and this man may have lived in nearby Kentucky?

4.  Samuel Bean Fuller (1812-1890) was my 3rd great grandfather.  He was born somewhere in New Hampshire, just before the family's move to Lowell, Mass.  According to Henrietta, he was raised in Meredith, NH by his uncle Samuel Bean, a banker.  When an adult, SB Fuller moved to Waterville, Fairfield, and Winslow Maine to work on the railroad, and eventually settled out in Ottumwa Iowa during the Civil War, setting up a dry goods business with his son-in-law George Sheffer.  This business burned down not long after it started, as I state in more detail in the above linked post.  Samuel had 7 children and 18 grandchildren.  Many of his descendants ended up in Missouri, Seattle, California, Chicago, and back to Maine, but none of them stayed in Iowa.  I have yet to find a birth record that definitively links him to his father John, and that makes it more difficult to apply to the General Society of Mayflower Descendants (although DNA accounts have linked me to Edward Fuller of the Mayflower).

SAMUEL BEAN FULLER

5.  Harrison H. Fuller (1814-1885) was born in Moultonborough, NH (along with his twin brother Porter).  He married Arvilla Hill of Epping, NH, (sister to Parsons Hill, who married Harrison's sister Caroline).  Harrison and Arvilla they stayed in Lowell, where Harrison worked as a police officer.  They had five children.  Their sons, Edwin and Charles, fought in the Civil War.  His parents are listed on his death record as John & Sarah Fuller.

6.  Porter W. Fuller (1814-1853) was born in Moultonborough, NH (along with his twin brother Porter).  He worked on a farm in Lowell most of his short life, and died of dropsy in the Almshouse at age 38.  He is buried at Old English Cemetery in Lowell near his parents.  His parents are listed on his death record as John & Sarah Fuller.  According to Henrietta Chapman, he was "never very strong" and "married a girl considered wild".  This must have been Mary Irene Strong of Granville, MA, whom he married in 1839.

7.  Sarah Ann Fuller (1816-1882) was born in New Hampshire, and named after her mother.  She married a baker named Corbin Gould of Orange, Mass., and they settled in the West End of Boston with five children.  On her death record, she was already widowed, and it lists Holderness as the birthplace, with unknown parents.  That seems interesting, in that whomever filled out the forms (likely one of her kids) was unaware of who the parents were.  Also, it's hard to believe she was actually born in Holderness, when the family was either in Moultonborough or Peacham at this time.  

8.  Josiah Fuller (1817-1895) was born in Peacham Vermont, according to all census records and his death record.  He married Ellen A. Smith, and settled in Chicopee, Mass.  They had one son, Willie, who became the 13th Mayor of Chicopee, and married into the Eaton/Crandall family, who were related to Martin Van Buren.  Josiah worked as an almoner, and had two daughters.  I cannot locate his VT birth record.  His 1900 census record states his parents were born in VT, which is wrong.  However, his Chicopee marriage record states that his father was named John, and his death record states that his parents were John and "Mary".   I've been unable to locate burial location for Josiah.

9.  Mary Bean Fuller (1818-1885) was born in Vermont, according to all census records, and her death record.  She married a brickmason named Daniel Chapman, and they had five children.  She ran boarding houses in Lowell and in Lawrence, which housed many Irish and Scottish immigrants.  Mary died of apoplexy in 1885, at her son in law's house, next to Broad Street Cemetery, and is buried at Edson Cemetery in Lowell, with three of her children.  Her death record, interestingly enough, lists her parents as Josiah Fuller and Mary Bean, both of New Hampshire.  I'm pretty sure this is an error.  The only Josiah in this family was her brother (listed above).  I couldn't find any couple matching those names for the appropriate time period of her birth. Was John's middle name Josiah??

Mary's daughter, Henrietta Chapman (mentioned above), was an avid genealogist, and some of her notes and records were passed down to Fuller kin.  I've been able to secure copies of some of them, including her 1929 papers.

10.  Caroline W. Fuller (1821-1881) was born in Peacham, Vermont, with her twin Juliet.  She married Parsons Hill of Epping, NH, (brother to Arvilla Hill, who married Caroline's brother Harrison).  Their wedding in Lowell was one year after Caroline's father John had passed away.  She and Parsons moved southeast to Lynn, Mass, where they had three children together.  Their eldest, Caddie, died at age 15.  Their son Herbert had a daughter he named Caddie, who died at one year of age.  This family is buried in Pine Grove Cemetery in Lynn, Mass.  Her death record states that her parents were John and Sally Fuller.  I've been able to trace Caroline's descendants far enough to prove that she had no living descendants after 1977.  All of her children and grandkids died young, or without children of their own.

11.  Juliet W. Fuller (1821-1862) was born in Peacham, Vermont, and was a twin to Caroline.  She married Charles Wentworth, and had one child, Frank.  They settled in Worcester, Mass.  On her death record, it is stated that her parents were John and Sarah Fuller.  She died while attempting to give birth, just after she turned 40.



My great uncle, Harold Fuller, was very much into genealogy, and tried to establish a link to the Mayflower Fullers during his lifetime.  His own research notes relied heavily upon the papers of Henrietta Chapman-Young (written in 1929).  Henrietta believed that John's father was named Moody Fuller, and that his wife's name was Mary.  I do believe they were mistaken on these two points, after my having reviewed many records noted above.  Moody was clearly the maiden name of John's mother-in-law, Abigail Moody-Bean, and more records state that their children's mother was named Sally than do Mary.

The Beans of Rockingham County NH

GRAVE OF JOHN BEAN AND BOTH WIVES
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH BURIAL GROUND
EXETER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

My 9th great grandfather was John MacBean (1634-1718) of the Scottish Highlands, who was a prisoner of war during the Battle of Worcester of the English Civil War.  He and more than 200 other prisoners in 1651 were put on the ship "The Sarah and John", which docked in Boston 24 Feb. 1652 - (other sources report it was the "Mary and John").  John's last name was changed on the ship from "MacBean" to "Bean", and he was sold as an indentured servant in Boston to a Nicholas Lissen of Exeter, New Hampshire, who may have also been of Scottish descent.

When John married his master's daughter, Hannah Lissen (1635-1659), he gained freedom from servitude.  They had one child, Mary Bean (1655-1743), who married Joel Judkins, and their granddaughter Mary married her second cousin, David Bean (mentioned below), who was my 6th great grandfather.

Hannah died young, and John then married another of Nicolas's indentured servants, Margaret (an orphan of unknown Scottish or Irish origin).  Below is a brief history of Margaret:

Margaret was an orphan when, at age 12, she was sent to America as an indentured servant, last name is uncertain. Apparently, she became indentured to Nicholas Lissen (as did John Bean, her husband), and after the death of his first wife, the daughter of Nicholas Lissen, she married him [thus her last name is often reported as Lissen.] >Enfield-Bryant Genealogy, Internet.

Margaret Bean joined the Hampton church in 1671. Among those dismissed September 11, 1698" in order to be incorporated into a church state in Exeter," was "Goodwife Bean" and Margaret Bean was one of those who organized the church of Exeter, September 21, 1698. The wife of John Bean could have been the only Margaret Bean in 1671, who was Margaret Bean and "Goodwife Bean" in 1698. She was living and a member of the church in 1705. The date of her death has yet to be found but it preceded her husband's. It was probably 1714, for John then began to make disposition of his property among his heirs. >New England Family History, v3, p486.

In 1661, the Town of Exeter granted him land.  Additional grants occurred in 1664, 1671, and 1698.  On November 30, 1677 he took the oath of allegiance to become a freeman; he was assessed in the "Province Rate" for Exeter made April 20, 1680, eight shillings and a penny; and was pound keeper the same year. John signed the New Hampshire Petition of 1689/90.

John & Margaret had eight children:

1.  John Bean (1661-1666) died at age 4.

2.  Daniel Bean (1663-1718), my eighth great grandfather.  He married Mary Fifield of Exeter, and had one son, John Bean (1688-1746), my seventh great grandfather.  John was one of 5 men who were on a scouting trip during the Indian war and were ambushed and massacred near the Turkey River garrison (currently St. Paul's School) at Rumford, N.H (now Concord) on 11 Aug 1746.  In 1837, a monument was erected in their honor at the site of the ambush (later moved a mile east of the site to in front of the Concord Hospital parking facility on Route 9).  It is called the "Bradley Monument".  More information about that year in Rumford and the Massacre (along with many other battle stories) can be found here.

"THIS MONUMENT IS IN MEMORY OF SAMUEL BRADLEY, JONATHAN BRADLEY, OBADIAH PETERS, JOHN BEAN & JOHN LUFKIN, WHO WERE MASSACRED AUGUST 11, 1746 BY THE INDIANS NEAR THIS SPOT.  ERECTED 1837, BY RICHARD BRADLEY, SON OF THE HON. JOHN BRADLEY & GRANDSON OF SAMUEL BRADLEY."

The actual massacre site was somewhere on the north side of Hopkinton Road, about a mile west of the above photo, and just north of Turkey River.  Google Earth shows a grassy mound in the right location, so this may be the site...

John's son David (1717-1770) migrated 75 miles north to Sandwich, NH, with his second cousin Mary Judkins (both David and Mary were my 6th great grandparents), and their twelve children.  David was known as the father of the Beans of all Carroll County.  All seven of David's sons of this family served in the Revolutionary War, including my 5th great grandfather David Bean of Sandwich (whose daughter was Sally Bean-Fuller, mother to my 3rd great grandfather Samuel Bean Fuller). Their home was built of logs cut while clearing the land.

3. Samuel Bean (1666-??) - Samuel had a son and grandson named Samuel and this later family settled in Windham Maine.

4. John Bean, Jr. (1668-1719)  No further information.

5.  Margaret Bean (1670-1766) married William Taylor and moved to Kingston, New Hampshire and had seven chidren.

6.  James Bean (1672-1753) married three times (Sarah Coleman, Sarah Bradley, and Mary Crosby), and had a total of seven children in Exeter.

7. Jeremiah Bean (1675-1727) was nicknamed "Jeremy".  He married Ruth Johnson, and had one daughter, Tabitha Bean-Elkins.

8.  Elizabeth Bean (1678-1730)  No further information.

I'm not certain, but I think that the many dozens of Bean families of Rockingham, Brentwood, Exeter, Sandwich, and Moultonboro, New Hampshire all descend from John MacBean, the prisoner of war.

The Burrill Family of Fairfield Maine

The Burrill (also written as Burrell) surname is purportedly rooted (at least for our ancestry) in the Anglo-Saxon name Burwell, which is derived from the Old English byrig-wiellw, which means 'town well' or 'fort by a spring'.

Early origins of the name stem from those families that resided in the township of Burwell, as such township was located in each of Northampton, Cambridgeshire, and Lincolnshire.  Anyone with this last name would have ancestors originating in one of these three East England counties.

According to Ancestry trees (which can be dubious in nature), my 13th great grandfather was Edmund Burwell (1485-1549), from Suffolk (closest to Cambridgeshire), and is the furthest I've been able to trace the line.  Edmund's grandson Thomas Burwell, along with Thomas' son John, sailed to Connecticut about twenty years after the Mayflower arrived, but later migrated up to Plymouth Colony.  Many other Burwells from England had sailed directly to Virginia Colony at the same time.  Our branch of the Burwell family name had changed to Burrell/Burrill.  Several of these settlers married into lines that descended directly from Mayflower passengers, much like all colonial families. 

With reliable records, however, I've been able to trace as far back as John Burrill (1609-1711), who came at the age of 26 on the ship Blessing July of 1636.  He settled in Weymouth, MA in 1639. He was granted 26 acres. He had two lots of five acres granted 'in the Rainge' and 1 acres 'in King oke hill.' He also had lot 33 of 5 acres in the First Division and lot 41 of 15 acres in the second division granted 14 Dec 1663.

He was provided arms and ammunition for King Philip's War on 1 Dec 1675, one of 13 Weymouth men in Capt. Johnson's Company in Oct 1675.

His son, John Jr. (1658-1731), married Mercy Alden, granddaughter to Mayflower passenger John Alden.

GRAVE OF BELA BURRILL
EMERY HILL CEMETERY
FAIRFIELD, ME

Bela Burrill (1756-1816) was my 5th great grandfather, and a direct descendant of the Burrell family from Weymouth, MA.  At the age of nine, while the family was living in Abington, in Plymouth County, his mother (Anna Vinton) was in Maine and died giving birth to Bela's youngest brother Ziba.  According to online trees, Bela's father John Burrill died in Abington on the same day (12 Mar 1765).  I have yet to find any backup records for this date coincidence (so it could be an error), but if true it could prove to have been a sad tale.  

Bela fought in the Revolutionary War for five months, in Capt. James Lamont‘s Company. Private 22 July 1775 to 31 Dec 1775.  Afterwards, he somehow found his way up to Somerset County, Maine, where he met Hannah Colemore, a Sagadahoc, Maine native.   Bela fought in Captain James Lamont's Company from 22 Jul 1775 to 31 Dec 1774.  Bela's brother John fought in the Revolutionary War, in Capt. Gould's company, Col. John Greaton's regiments, among others, and fought five and a half long years. His father John was a Sergeant and his grandfather John was a Captain.

Bela and Hannah settled in Fairfield, and had approximately nine children.  Their son Hull Burrill was a veteran of the War of 1812 and a prominent attorney from nearby Canaan, and father of 10.  He appeared in many Somerset County court records going after people for failure to pay him money.  Their son Jonas lived in nearby Clinton, and their son Bela Jr. lived in nearby Albion (now China).  Another son Benjamin Burrill (1782-1857), 4th great grandfahter, grew up in Fairfield and took on farming, just like the Colemores, Emerys, Sibleys, and Osborns who were his neighbors.  I have yet to establish proof that Benjamin is the son of Bela (an established John Alden descendant), but other applications to the Mayflower Society have succeeded for Benjamin's descendants in the past. 

In 1803, Benjamin married Margaret Sibley, daughter of English, French Huguenot and Nova Scotian immigrants, and they had five children.  In July 1825, he sued his brother Hull for a fraudulent conveyance of 82 acres of land in Canaan Hull had sold to him when he didn't actually own the property.  Hull never showed up in court, and Benjamin was awarded his money back. [Source:  Somerset County Court Records].

Benjamin's daughter, Lydia Burrill (1806-1854) married local farmer Jacob Osborn, son to sea captain Isaac Osborn (Rev War veteran and transplant from East Hampton, Long Island) and Sarah Wyman (Isaac's brother Ephraim married Sarah's sister Lydia - who was a cousin to Polly Wyman, Hull Burrill's wife!). 

Jacob died very young, and only a few years after marriage.  A couple of years later Lydia married Jacob's own younger brother Timothy Osborn (1805-1898), pictured below:

Their daughter Lydia Osborn married Charles Samuel Fuller (who was Timothy's cousin!).  Lydia and Charles were my 2nd great grandparents.

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As is often the case with early New England families, another set of Burrills figure in to the family:

My third great grandfather, John Holland, whose nephew, James Madison Bell, married Sylvia Belle Burrill, who was also a descendant of immigrant John Burwell (Sylvia was also a descendant of the same Bean family from Scotland as the ancestors of Samuel Bean Fuller, father to Charles Fuller mentioned above!

Below is a pedigree chart of Lydia Burrill-Osborn-Osborn.  She was 25% French, 75% English.

Royal Scottish Roots (Fuller/Bean)

As referenced in other blog posts, Arthur Fuller's paternal grandfather was Samuel Bean Fuller.  Samuel Bean Fuller's father was John Fuller, a direct 6th generation descendant of Edward Fuller of the Mayflower, and Samuel's mother was Mary Bean of New Hampshire, direct descendant of the MacBean clan of the Scottish Highlands, which is traced all the way back to 1266 AD, to the birth of Bean MacDomhil Mor.

We believe Mary's father to be David Bean, who fought in the Revolutionary War, and was from New Hampshire.  David's 3rd great grandfather was John Bean from Scotland.  David's paternal grandmother was Martha Sinkler/Sinclair, who is a direct descendant of the noble Sinclair and Sutherland lines, who are descendants of many Scottish Royals:

KENNETH MCALPIN

  







CONSTANTINE I







DONALD II

The above three were the last Kings of the Pict/Alba Nation, a tattooed tribal group that ruled northeastern Scotland throughout the beginning of recorded history, later expanded into today’s Scotland. King Kenneth McAlpin was the first ruler in a long line of dynastic kings of Scotland, continuing with his son Constantine I and grandson Donald II, who ruled until 900.









MALCOLM I







KENNETH II







MALCOLM II

Donald II's son, Malcolm I was next in line for King of Alba, followed by Kenneth II and Malcolm II, who ruled until 1034.








DUNCAN I
Duncan, the grandson of Malcolm II, ruled Scotland for only 6 years. He was murdered by Macbeth, as made famous by Shakespeare’s play. The play, however, depicts Duncan as an old and sick king at the time of his murder. The truth was that Duncan was only 27 when killed.









MALCOLM III

Duncan's son, King Malcolm III, ruled the Scots for 35 years. He took over when Macbeth was finally defeated.

His wife, Queen Margaret, was the only royal saint of Scotland, in recognition of her personal holiness, fidelity to the Church, work for religious reform, and charity. She attended to charitable works, and personally served orphans and the poor every day before she ate. She rose at midnight to attend church services every night. She was known for her work for religious reform. She was considered to be an exemplar of the "just ruler", and also influenced her husband and children to be just and holy rulers.









KING DAVID I
Malcolm's son, King David I of Scotland, ruled Scotland for 29 years (1124-1153). During his reign, he put Scotland through many changes, in particularly the “Normanization” of Scotland. He ultimately didn’t get to see the expansion of Scotland into how we presently refer to it.









KING ROBERT THE BRUCE

Above is pictured King Robert I of Scotland (1274–1329), a 5th generation descendant of King David I. Robert the Bruce ruled Scotland for 23 years, with the single goal of achieving the true independence of Scotland. He is the king that took over after William Wallace led his band of warriors against the English invasion (as seen in the film Braveheart). He lived in many castles, including Fyvie Castle, below. His daughter, Princess Matilda, or “Maud”, is the direct ancestor of Arthur Fuller.








FYVIE CASTLE









KING ROBERT II
King Robert II ruled from 1370-1390. He was the first monarch from the famous Stewart Dynasty. His birth was legendary because his mother was riding horseback, got thrown from her horse, broke her neck and died instantly, and a stranger came and delivered Robert after she died. His son, King Robert III ruled from 1390-1406.








JAMES I







DUNFERMLINE CASTLE

Robert’s son, King James I, ruled Scotland from 1406-1437. However, the first half of his rule he was imprisoned in England, and the second half, when he returned home to Dunfermline Castle, he was continually threatened by cousins claiming a right to the throne, and was ultimately murdered by Walter Stewart. His daughter Annabella is the direct ancestor of Arthur Fuller.


SCOTTISH NOBILITY FAMILIES & CASTLES
(ANCESTRY OF SAMUEL BEAN FULLER)

Caerlaverock Castle:

The Catholic Maxwell clan was a legacy of barons who lived at Caerlaverock.  Their proximity to the English border meant they had to face several sieges from the English, and ultimately against the Protestants as well.

Jane Maxwell, my 17th great grandmother, was born there in 1395, and died there in 1458.

Her ancestors lived their entire lives at Caerlaverock:

Herbert Maxwell (1366-1421), my 18th great grandfather.

Robert Maxwell (1340-1410), my 19th great grandfather.

John Maxwell (1310-1373), my 20th great grandfather.

John Maxwell (1285-1346), my 21st great grandfather.

John DeMaxwell (1262-1307), my 22nd great grandfather.

Oliver Castle

The Frasers are a large clan that originated in France.  In Scotland they ruled a province named Peebleshire (now Tweeddale).  Sir Simon Fraser born, 1226.  He married a lady named “Grizzle Flava”.  Haha.  They were my 21st great grandparents.

Their son and grandson were both named Simon Fraser, born in 1246, and 1266.  Sir Simon the 16th is in charge of the Fraser Clan today.

Simon and his progeny fought during the Wars for Scottish Independence.  The Castle of Oliver was on very high ground 1000 feet above sea level, and by the late 1640s was in a ruinous state and past all repairs.  It was replaced in 1649, but no longer stands to this day.

Lochleven Castle

Agnes Munfode, my 18th great grandmother, died here in 1377.  She had married into the Douglas Clan that resided here.

Kinnairdy Castle

This castle in Aberdeenshire was built by the Innes Clan, a family of minor barons initially from Innes, Morayshire.  The castle was sold off in the 1600’s to other families, but it was repurchased by a descendant of the Innes’ in 1923, and is still owned and run by them today.

James Innes (1437-1491), my 15th great grandfather

Walter Innes died here 1454, my 17th great grandfather

Robert Innes died here 2/1/1464, my 16th great grandfather.

Huntly Castle

The Gordon Clan built and maintained this castle for centuries, ultimately granting it to Historic Scotland in 1923. 

Janet Gordon, my 15th great grandmother, was born here in 1442.  Ten years after, the castle was burned to the ground in a battle with a neighboring Earldom.  A grander version, seen above, was built in its place.

Dunbeath Castle

The Innes Clan passed this on to the Sutherland Clan, who lived here for centuries.  Marjory Sutherland, my 15th great grandmother, died here in 1480.  In the 1600’s the Sutherlands passed the castle on to the Sinclair Clan.  Today it is privately owned by a non-descendant, and is not open to the public.

Royal German Roots (Fuller/Osborn/Bean)

CONRAD II
HEINRICH III
HEINRICH IV

Conrad II was Holy Roman Emperor (1027-1039). His son, Heinrich III, ruled as King of Germany during this time, and at Conrad’s death, also inherited title of Holy Roman Emperor, and ruled both until his death in 1056. Heinrich’s son, Heinrich IV, ruled as King of Germany from 1056-1105 (abdicated), and while King inherited Holy Roman Emperor status in 1084. Heinrich IV was one of the most important rulers of the 11th Century. These ancestors are linked only to Arthur Fuller through the Osborn line.


HENRY THE FOWLER

Henry the Fowler was King of the Germans from 919-936. He happens to be a direct ancestor of Hugh Capet, which puts this King as ancestor to the Bean AND Osborn lines leading to Arthur Fuller.

Royal French Roots (Fuller/Bean)

Building on the assumption that one branch of Arthur Fuller's ancestors were the Beans (who are proven to be linked to Scottish royals), we now go to the proven links from there to French royalty:

 

DAGOBERT I OF THE FRANKS

(602-638)

Dagobert I ruled Austrasia (later part of the Frankish Empire) from 623-634. One of his descendants married Charles Martel, who was nicknamed “The Hammer”. King Charles ruled Francia as “Duke and Prince of the Franks” from 737-741. He was described as a brilliant general and effective expellor of Arab forces that kept invading. Charles was a descendant of King Pepin I (who was also the father of Charlemagne).

 

 

KING HENRI I OF FRANCE

 

Henri I was Uncle-In-Law to William the Conqueror. Henri feared William’s power, and tried to seize Normandy from him twice, to no avail. Henri I married Anne of Kiev.

 

Henri’s father was King Robert II, his predecessor, whose father was King Hugh.

 

KING HUGH CAPET OF FRANCE

(939-996)

King Hugh’s father was Duke Hugh the Great, and Duke Hugh's father was King Robert I, who, at the time was ruler of what was then called “Western Francia”. Robert’s father, Robert the Strong, was Marquis of the land when it was called “Neustria”. He was killed by Vikings.

 

• French Count Hugh X of Lusignan, (1183-1249) succeeded his father Hugh IX as Seigneur de Lusignan and Count of La Marche in November, 1219 and was Count of Angoulême by marriage. It is unclear whether it was Hugh IX or Hugh X who was betrothed to Isabella of Angoulême when, in 1200, King John of England took her for his Queen, an action which resulted in the entire de Lusignan family rebelling against the English king.

 

• Count Thomas of Savoy abducted the future wife of King Philip II of France, and married her himself, and they had 14 children, the oldest being the future Count, and an ancestor of Arthur Fuller.

In addition, Arthur Fuller was the son of Sarah Osborn-Fuller, and her Osborn line was descended from, among other things, the Lusignan Dynasty, the notorious barons of western France.

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