Fuller Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Fuller Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Fuller

The origin of the name Fuller was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. Fuller is an occupational name from a person who worked as a fuller whose job it was to scour and thicken raw cloth by beating and trampling it in water. The surname is found mostly in South-East England and East Anglia. This name is of Anglo-Saxon descent spreading to the Celtic countries of Ireland , Scotland and Wales in early times and is found in many mediaeval manuscripts throughout these countries. Examples of such are a Gilbert le Fuller, Hertfordshire, and an Ambrose le Fullur, Salop, who were recorded in the 'Hundred Rolls', England , in the year 1273. An Andrew Fullo was recorded as a tenant in Mikilbrekauch, Scotland , in the year 1376. A Thomas Fullo was Burgess in Edinburgh in the year 1386. Fuller has also been associated with County Kerry since the sixteenth century and is recorded as an anglicized form of the Gaelic Mac an Ucaire sept (meaning 'son of the fuller'), that was located in County Down.