NORFOLK SURNAMES: F

FULLER:
The name Fuller is mainly found in South East England and East Anglia and is taken from an occupation in the cloth industry. The fuller would beat and trample cloth in water, often with a special agent known as fuller’s earth, which helped to thicken and tighten the raw cloth and turn it into strong material.
In the IGI the name Fuller crops up in Norfolk 5000 times and the earliest reference is for 1413.
In the 1881 census for Norfolk there were 1000 Fullers.

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