The Fuller Connection (& King Edward)

Thanks to Isabelle Harvey and Linda Schmidt for their contributions …
Generation 1

(John) Abel Walter Esq. (born 1701 in Barbados West Indies  & died October 15, 1767 in Bath) married on January 27, 1729, Jane Nevill (daughter of George Neville and Anne Walker, was born March 8, 1703 & died March 19, 1786), who was de jure 4th Baroness Bergavenny of the 6th creation and the sole heir of Baron George Nevill (died 1720/1), the Lord Bergavenny.  Jane Nevill was a direct descendant of King Edward I, II and III thus linking the Harvey's to a bit of royalty.  See the website below for further information.

Their Children:

• John Walter 1733 - 1811

• Charlotte Walter 1736 - November 10, 1811 in Bath Somerset

• Edward Neville Walter 1737 - 1802

King Edward (born June 17, 1239 died July 7, 1307) also know as Edward Longshanks was king of England from 1272 to 1307

See:  (http://books.google.ca/books?id=je4KAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA17&dq=lt.+col.+francis+fuller+1791&hl=en&ei=y5mUTZaHMKSU0QGpz_WHDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=lt.%20col.%20francis%20fuller%201791&f=false

Generation 2

Ascanius William Senior (son of Moses Aaron Senior, born 1690 in Spain and Elizabeth Halsey), was born on January 23, 1728 and died October 24, 1789 in Middlesex, England.  His second marriage on May 5, 1768 at St. George's, Hanover Square was to Charlotte Walter (1736 - November 10, 1811, from a memorial in the Bath Abbey), the daughter of John Abel Walter esq. and Jane Nevill (daughter of George Lord Abergavenny Premier Baron of England).

Their Children:

• Nevillia Senior (1771 - died December 17, 1842, in St. Thomas Devon).  She married William Nassau Bartholomew Thomas on 04 Jan 1792 in Winkfield, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, son of Vigors Thomas and Mary Gabbett. He was born in 1760 and he died on January 20, 1848.

• Charlotte Maria Senior (1773 - July 29, 1798)

British Dominance of India 1785

Ascanius Senior went out to Bengal in 1753, as a 'writer' in the East India Company and prospered, becoming Clerk to the Court of Requests in 1756.  He was present, in the Militia, at the siege of Fort William, Calcutta, in June 1756, by the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj ad Dowla.  He escaped being captured and put into the 'Black Hole' by leaving Fort William during the confusion following the attack in the early hours of 19th June.  Along with the rest of merchants, civilians and others he fled down stream to Fulta, a Dutch possession, and endured a 7 month period of acute discomfort whilst negotiations to return to Calcutta were being made.  During the next four years his fortunes rose further. He became a ship owner and is recorded as complaining that his ships had been detained by the King of Queddah.  In 1760 he had become Import Warehouse Keeper and in 1765 he became Chief at Cossim/Kassim Bazaar and eleventh on the Governor's Council.  As a result of his position he was one of several Company officials, who customarily obtained handsome "presents" when new appointments were made to the position of Nawab of Bengal.  On Najam-ud-dowla's succession to that post, due in part to efforts of Senior and others, the usual generous presents were made and, according to Parliamentary records, Senior himself received £20,125 - a sum worth several millions at today's prices. Ascanius starts to appear in the indexes of 'Home Miscellaneous Records' (Volume 200) - A Narrative of Proceedings of the Bengal Council in 1765 and 1766 relative to the restitutions made to France by Great Britain in the Provinces of Bengal and Bihar...':  ‘The French Factory at Bihar was restored by John Cartier, that at Saidabad by William Ascanius Senior, Chief of Cossimbazar'. From 1766 Ascanius starts to feature in correspondence from Lord Clive with regard to the intrigues by the Bengal merchants against the imposition of Madras Councillors by Clive and the London Directors, and in the long running scandals over succession to the position of Nawab of Bengal, following the death of Mir Jaffa.  This event occurred in 1765, only six months after Mir Jaffa had been re-established in his position as Nawab.  Ascanius Senior's presence in Murshidad, the 'capital' of the Mogul Province of Bengal, was crucial to the subsequent elevation of Mir Jaffir's semi-imbecile son, Najam-ud-dowla, to this position, and the assumption by the East India Co. of the power to make all appointment to the Nawab's Council.  In a letter dated 30th Sept 1765, Lord Clive and the Select Committee wrote to the Court of Directors on the subject of Najam-ud-dowla: 'a deputation consisting of Messrs Johnstone, Senior, Middleton and Leycester was appointed to raise the natural son of the deceased Nabob to Subahdary, in prejudice to the claim of his grandson'; 'Najam-ud-dowla succeeded to the Musnud during the Government of Mr. Spencer, when Mr. Johnstone, and Mr. Leycester were sent to Murshidabad, where Mr. Senior and Mr. Middleton then were...'. Ascanius resigned from the East India Company, after 13 years service, in late 1766, almost certainly as a result of being forced to appear before a Select Committee staffed by four of Lord Clive's followers to account for his gains. 

Ascanius Senior returned to England a very wealthy man. He had a house in Mayfair in London, and became a shareholder in the Company.  He bought Pierrepont Lodge, Frensham, near Farnham (a school until 1993 and now an 'international healing and residential centre'; the current house is 19th century) from the 2nd Duke of Kingston in 1771, which he sold before buying the Pylewell Estate in 1780 from Sir Richard Worsley for £22,000.  This included the mansion, the manors of Pilley and Warbourne and a number of farms such as Vinings, East End, Walhampton, Pitts Deep, Nash and Blackhamsley.  In addition, by 1784 Senior had purchased the manor of South Baddesley from the Arundells, and so created a much enlarged estate based on Pylewell.  The estate was sold in 1787 to Thomas Robbins for £32,000. Ascanius Senior was appointed High Sheriff of Hampshire for the year 1777/8, a singular social achievement even for a 'Nabob' in an age when pedigree was of greater importance than money.  Ascanius died at Canon Hill House, Bray, on 24th October 1787 at the age of 59.

British Dominance of India 1857

The British East India Company, sometimes referred to as "John Company," was a joint-stock company which was granted an English Royal Charter by Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600, with the intention of favoring trade privileges in India. The Royal Charter effectively gave the newly created The Honourable Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies (HEIC) a 15 year monopoly on all trade in the East Indies. The Company transformed from a commercial trading venture to one which virtually ruled India as it acquired auxiliary governmental and military functions, until its dissolution in 1858. This followed the anti-British rebellion (or First War of Indian Independence), after which the British government decided that direct rule would be more appropriate. Increasingly, the company had been compelled to promote the material and moral progress of its Indian subjects, as, while trade remained the main goal of Empire, the British started to justify imperialism by speaking of a duty to “civilize” and “educate.” Servants of the company, though, could make vast amounts of money and were highly paid while their counterparts at home received modest salaries.  
See: http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/British_East_India_Company 

Generation 3

Charlotte Maria Senior (1773 - July 29, 1798 at Bath) married on August 19, 1790 (in St. George's, Hanover Square, London, England) General Francis Fuller (the son of John Fuller & Anne Ludbey, born November 14, 1763 – died May 26, 1841 at Versailles, France), General in the Army, of Salisbury, Wilts.

Their Children:

• Lt. Col. Francis Fuller (May 28, 1791 - May 27, 1853 at Greenwich), Commander of the 59^th Regiment 1834

• Charlotte Fuller (born in 1793 in Wiltshire & died April 19, 1865, in St. Pancras, Middlesex) (married January 11, 1813 to Thomas Wyatt Gunning, Surgeon-General in the army, son of Joseph Gunning and Elizabeth Brown who was born on April 11, 1775 & died on November 30, 1849).

• Emelia Fuller (born 1798 in Bath, Somerset - September 14,1863 in Chelsea, London) (married January 10, 1818 to Francis Fuller, Lt. Col. son of William Fuller and Mary Sandford, who was born October 19, 1788 & died April 19, 1868).

Fort William India 1735

Lieutenant-General Francis Fuller, was appointed Ensign and Lieutenant in the 36^th foot in 1778; and captain in the 101^st foot in 1781.  In later years he embarked for the East Indies, and served there from 1782 - 1784.  At the battle of Cuddalore in 1783 he commanded the 101^st, and in 1785 returned to England and obtained a Majority in his regiment.  On the 30^th of June, 1794, he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel in the 59^th foot.  He served on the Continent in 1794 and 1795, and covered the retreat of the division of the army before Nimeguen.  At the latter end of the 1795 he embarked for the West Indies, where he continued to serve till 1802.  At the attack of the enemy's position on the Vigie at St. Vincent's he commanded the 59^th; he covered the retreat of the army from Mount Young; and at the attack of the enemy's redoubts on the Vigie, he commanded a column.

On the 1^st of January 1798, he received the rank of Colonel. He commanded a brigade at the capture of the islands of St. Bartholomew, St. Martin's, St. Thomas, and St. Croix, in 1801. The 1^st of January 1805, he was appointed Major-General, and in 1805 embarked for the East Indies, where he commanded a division of the field army under the presidency of Fort William. The 4^th of June 1811, he received the rank of Lieutenant-General. He subsequently for some years commanded the forces in Jamaica.

Generation 4

Lt. Col. Francis Fuller (May 28, 1791 – May 27, 1853) married Charlotte Matilda Finch (1802 in Surrey, England - January 14, 1855 in Cobourg ON, Canada) on July 17, 1819 in Berhampore, Bengal, India.  Charlotte Matilda is buried at St. Peter's Anglican Cemetery in Cobourg ON.

Their Children:

• Amelia Emily Fuller, was born on December 30, 1825 in Cawnpore, West Bengal, India and was of English origin, and died from a stroke on January 23, 1897 in Dummer Township, Peterborough Co., ON Canada.

• Frances Elizabeth Fuller, born May 8,1829, in Chatham, Kent, England and died September 8, 1867, married on January 12, 1855, Charles Burr Gifford, of Coburg, ON Canada,  (born 1821 in Devonshire, England).  Their children were: Wearman Gifford, of Montreal, Canada, born 1856, died 1928, who married in 1877 to Mary Sophronia Buck, born 1855; and Francis Sweetland Gifford, born 1857.  Frances is buried at St. Peter's Anglican Cemetery in Cobourg ON.

• Charles Travers Fuller, was born in Dublin Ireland in 1833/34 of English origin and died on November 7, 1906.  His daughter Florence Maud Fuller was born February 7, 1857 in Peterborough Co., and died April 12, 1923, and is buried at St. Mark’s Anglican Cemetery, Dummer Township, Peterborough Co., ON.  Census records and a will show that Charles did not have a wife.  After living with his sister Amelia Harvey, he later resided in Burleigh Township and was the first Lock Master at Burleigh Falls where Lovesick Lake empties into Stoney Lake.

• Charlotte Fuller born 1833, and died 1853 and is likely buried in England.  Only one record showed the Fullers as having a fourth child.

Generation 5

Amelia Emily Fuller born on December 30, 1825 and died January 23, 1897 in Dummer Township, ON, Canada.

AND

Joseph Harvey Harvey was born in England 1820.  Joseph married Amelia Emily Fuller about 1844 and is rumored to have died at sea around 1845.

Their Children:

·      Joseph Charles Harvey was born on April 13, 1845, at Brookley Cottage Brockenhurst, a sub district of Lymington, in the county of Southampton, England.  He died on January 19, 1920 in Lakefield, ON Canada.

Amelia Emily (Fuller) Harvey’s second marriage was to Samuel Bryson (born February 17, 1840 Toronto, York ON and died 1927) in 1872 in Dummer Township ON, Canada (son of Robert Bryson and Isabella Douglas).  The 1891 Ontario Census shows an Amelia Bryson residing in Dummer Township.  


After Amelia died Samuel Bryson 58 would marry Hannah Stone 42, (daughter of John STONE & Matilda MATHEWS) on November 1, 1898 in York.

Hannah Stone also lost family when Joseph and Ann Maria Harvey lost some of their children to black diphtheria.  It seems that Hannah's parents, John and Matilda Stone lived across from the the Harvey's on Coon Lake Rd. in Burleigh Township.

Hannah Stone worked as the maid for Samuel Bryson and his first wife Amelia Fuller-Harvey.  She married him after the death of Amelia.  Hannah would solo her canoe across the lake on her way to the Bryson home, giving us a great story to tell our children.  One day when she was crossing Stoney Lake, a storm came up and her canoe took on water.  She waited the storm out on a rock barely showing above the water.  From that time on, the rock has been known as Hannah's Rock.  The Bryson's home overlooked a bay on Stoney Lake that is called Bryson's Bay to this day.

The Fuller – Harvey Migration:

Reports indicate that Amelia Emily Fuller - Harvey lived the life of a proper military family.  While posted in India with the 59^th Foot, her parents Lt. Col. Francis Fuller (1791 – 1853) and Charlotte Matilda Finch (1802 in Surrey, England – 1855) gave birth to a refined yet adventurous women.  She would be baptised in the Ganges River in Cawnpore India and later live in Ireland and return to England, only to pioneer in Canada.

One would expect that Amelia received a formal education while in England.  It is also likely that her highly decorated and well-traveled father and grandfather helped develop her appreciation for fine horses, and for global adventure.  Their colorful stories probably stirred her interests and the interests of her siblings for far-off places.  We could only imagine how her father and grandfather first told her of Canada after their military tour there in 1809.

After her husband Joseph's sudden death, Amelia and her young son Joseph Charles Harvey (9) headed for Canada.  In 1854 Amelia and Joseph, and her brother Charles Travers Fuller (1833), sister Frances Elizabeth Fuller (1829 - 1867) and her mother Charlotte Matilda (Finch) Fuller would arrive in Cobourg Ontario.  It seemed there was nothing holding them in England, yet everything was welcoming them to Canada.  They had another adventure in them. 

Amelia and Joseph, and her brother Charles would later move north to farm on the south shores of Clear Lake, Dummer Township, Peterborough Co., ON.   Amelia Harvey would go on to buy property and raise horses, hiring Samuel Bryson as her help.  She would later marry Samuel Bryson and will the farm to him.  My mother recalls hearing stories of this proper lady with the finest of horses and carriages making her entrance to the farm of her son Joseph Charles Harvey.  It seems that even while she worked hard to settle property on the forested shores of Clear and Stoney Lake, she never lost that sense of elegance and distinction.

The 1871 Census of Canada shows that Amelia Harvey, Samuel Bryson, and Charles Fuller lived at the same address in Dummer Township, ON

“In 1921, the Rotary Club of Peterborough purchased 186 acres of land on Clear Lake in the Kawartha's region of eastern Ontario for $250 from a local farmer, Mr. Samuel Bryson. The Club intended to develop a boy's camp "free from the artificial life of cities" ... "where boys learn to rely on their own resources and experience the joys of achievement in their work and play” (from a brochure published in 1922).”  This property is now known as Camp Kawartha.  (http://www.campkawartha.ca/aboutus/heritage.php)

Joseph Charles Harvey would move further north to settle land with his wife Anna Maria Bates on Coon Lake Rd., in Burleigh Township.

Stories passed through the family confirm that a lady and her son came by boat and stayed at the Harvey’s all night.  She was on her way north to Apsley (to teach at the school) and went by stagecoach the following day.  The boy carried Black Diphtheria. Three families were affected and consequently died: 3 Harvey children, 3 Stone children, and 2 Bolton children and their mother all died.  Like good neighbors, they had helped each other, and it spread.

These were not the only deaths the Harvey family would experience, as between October 28, 1881 and February 6, 1888 at least 6 Harvey children would suddenly die:  William (‘81), Edith (‘81), Eric (‘81) (3 from diphtheria), Francis (‘83), Edward (‘83) (2  from typhoid fever) and Esca (‘88).  All are supposedly buried on Coon Lake Rd., Burleigh ON.

In 1900 (after Amelia’s death, 1897 & Anna Maria’s death, 1900), the Harvey’s moved south to Concession 12 in Smith Township, just west of Young's Point to farm 200 acres.  When Joseph Charles retired to live in Lakefield, Bernal Harvey and his wife Isabella purchased the farm.  They kept purebred Holsteins and lived there together with their daughter Muriel (Harvey) Lloyd and her five children until they both passed away.  Muriel would purchase her brother Earl Harvey's share of the farm and later sell it to her son Douglas Lloyd.

Joseph Charles' other son Ernest Harvey and his wife Lena farmed close by, just north of Young's Point and off Highway 28 on the Old School Rd.  They also had Holsteins and farmed until 1945, when their son Malcolm and his wife Isabelle bought it and worked it until 1974.

Lt. Col. Francis Fuller Military Service:

The Illustrated London News / obituary

June 11, 1853

VOLUME: XXII / EDITION #: 627

Return of Killed wounded, and missing of the army under the Command of His Excellency Field-Marshal the Marquis of Wellington, K.G. in the Operations connected with the passage of the River Nieve, on the 13 Day of December, 1813.

59th Foot, 2d Batt. Capt. Francis Fuller, Severely wounded.

Royal Military Panorama or Officer's Companion

Vol IV. London 1814

Lt. Colonel Francis Fuller served with the 59th at the capture of Good Hope in 1806; the Peninsular campaigns from Dec 1812 to Feb 1814, including the battle o Vitoria, siege of San Sebastian, and battle of the Nive, where he was wounded in the shoulder and thigh, campaign of 1815, including the battle of Waterloo, storming of Cambray, and capture of Paris. Commanded the regiment at the siege and capture of Bhurtpore, in 1825-6 under Lord Combermere, and was slightly wounded in the arm. He has received the Gold Medal for San Sebastian, having commanded the regiment there; and the silver War Medal with three Clasps for Vittoria, Nivelle and Nive.[1]

Hart's Annual Army List, Mlitia List, and Imperial

- The New Annual Army List, and Militia List for 1867. War Services of Retired Lieutenant Colonels page 118

2603 Major Francis Fuller. Ens. 59th foot, 9th July, 1803; Lieut. 5th Sept. 1804; Capt. 5th Oct. 1809; Maj. 17th July, 1817. In 1809, acted as A.d.-c. to L-Gen. Fuller, on the staff at Canada. Served in the Peninsula, and has received a medal for the siege of ST. Sebastian; subsequently served in Flanders, and was present at the battle of Waterloo.[2]

The Royal Military Calendar, or Army Service and Commission Book

containing the services and progress of promotion of the Generals, Lieutenant-Generals, Major-Generals, Colonels, Lieutenant-Colonels, and majors of the army, according to seniority; with details of the principals military events of the last century. by Edward Knight page 343

At Greenwich, aged 62, Lieut-Col. Francis Fuller, C.B. an old Waterloo and Peninsular officer. He served with the 59th Foot at the battle of Vittoria, the siege of San Sebastian, the battle of Nive, where he was wounded, at Waterloo, the storming of Cambray, and capture of Paris. He afterwards proceeded to India, and was at the battle of Bhurtpore, under Lord Combermere. The deceased held three medals, via one for Waterloo, a war medal, and a medal for San Sebastian.[3]

The Gentleman's Magazine pg 100 July 1853 - Google books

Captain Fuller served in the 59th Foot. He and his wife lived Off Baxes on the River Ganges in the district of Cawnpore India at the time of Amelia baptism Kanpur India). (FHC film 0498956 - V14-16 year 1826 page 153 - India Bengal - Office of the Registrar General

Residence:

·      1841 in East Moulsey, Surrey, England

·      1851 in North West Canton, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands

·      1853 in 4 Egerton Road, Greenwch

Amelia Emily Fuller – Harvey

Residence:

·      1851 in North West Canton, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands

·      1871 in Peterborough East, Ontario, Canada

·      1891 in Peterborough East, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

·      Amelia Emily Fuller baptised off the Baxes on the Ganges River in Cawnpore India

·      Amelia and Joseph lived at Brookley Cottage Brockenhurst, Lymington, County of Southhampton

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[1] http://books.google.ca/books?id=VJIEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77&dq=%22francis+fuller%2 2+regiment&source=bl&ots=EdLAHw8mh1&sig=I3H7aMjNbHVgC299t-zqIAnvR1M&hl=en&ei=Hhu fSetllJo1sNaFzQs&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPA77,M1

[2] http://books.google.ca/books?id=m0r-6wejmY0C&pg=PA106&lpg=PA106&dq=%22francis+fuller% 22+regiment&source=bl&ots=3ulSNWjkjz&sig=Jv0u9YiSxkNO_RaSzcEu4_56fig&hl=en&ei=_AefS ZbMPKH4NMTWrdEL&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPA106,M1

[3]http://books.google.ca/books?id=2JMvvcwFehwC&pg=PA343&lpg=PA343&dq=%22major+francis+ fuller%22&source=bl&ots=xNgivJNT2F&sig=_2se52wqtRfQ_gnn-LlamCGTCaY&hl=en&ei=JnidSai GN4SPmQeu38zfBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPP8,M1

Fuller Headstones:

St. Peter's Anglican Church Cemetery, Cobourg ON

Frances (Fuller) Gifford & Charlotte (Finch) Fuller

St. Peter's Anglican Church Cemetery, Cobourg ON, (Plots 1085 & 1087)

Frances Elizabeth (Fuller) Gifford 1829 - 1867

wife of Charles Gifford, daughter of Charlotte & Lt. Col. Francis Fuller

Charlotte Matilda (Finch) Fuller (1806 - 1855)

wife of Lt. Col. Francis Fuller & mother of Amelia Emily (Fuller) Harvey

1871 Census of Canada - Search Results - 1

Codebook   |   District Codes (numeric)   |   District Codes (alphabetical)

HARVEY, EMILEY

Sex:	1
Age:	45
Birthplace:	EAST INDIES
Religion:	CE
Ethnic Origin:	ENGLISH
Occupation:	LADY
District:	57
Sub District:	E
Division Page:	1
Page:	50
County:	PET
Description:	Dummer Twp.

FULLER, CHARLS

Headcode:	1
Age:	37
Birthplace:	IRELAND
Religion:	CE
Ethnic Origin:	IRISH
Occupation:	F
District:	57
Sub District:	E
Division Page:	1
Page:	50
County:	PET
Description:	Dummer Twp.

BRYSON, SAMUEL

Headcode:	1
Age:	30
Birthplace:	O
Religion:	CP
Ethnic Origin:	IRISH
Occupation:	SERVANT
District:	57
Sub District:	E
Division Page:	1
Page:	50
County:	PET
Description:	Dummer Twp.