When Lydia Fuller was born on 1 September 1709, in Haddam, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Shubael Fuller, was 25 and her mother, Hannah Crocker, was 21. She married Daniel Gates Jr in 1728, in East Haddam, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 14 August 1778, in East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States.
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In 1685 a group of residents moved across the river to settle East Haddam including some members the Gates, Ackley, Brainerd, Cone, Spencer, and Bates families. In 1700 East Haddam formed their own ecclesiastical society and became a separate town in 1734.
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English: occupational name for a dresser of cloth, from Middle English fuller ‘fuller of cloth’ (partly from Old English fullere, partly from Old French fouleor, foleur, Latin fullo). Raw cloth had to be fulled, i.e. scoured, cleansed, and thickened by beating or trampling it in water, a process also known as walking or tucking, hence the surnames Walker and Tucker alongside Fuller. These three terms and surnames are characteristic of different parts of England. In general, in Middle English, Fuller is southern and eastern, while Walker belongs to the west and north and Tucker is southwestern. Compare Fullen .
English: variant of Fullard with loss of -d.
German (Füller): occupational name for a person whose work involved filling, such as a dauber, or a nickname for a gourmand or glutton. Compare Filler .
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