Katie Fuller

Ancestors

Daughter of Keith Fuller and [private mother (1950s - unknown)]

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Biography

Katie Fuller was born in Northamptonshire, England.

Katie Fuller is a member of the Coggrave Name Study Project.

Katie Fuller is a member of the Fuller Name Study Project.

Katie Fuller has completed the England Project's Orphan Trail.

Katie Fuller is the descendant of a Huguenot emigrant.

As well as genealogy, I also spend my time looking for birds and insects, practising drawing, printmaking, photography, embroidery, gardening, baking sourdough, wandering the local countryside, visiting pubs and clearing up after my parakeet.

I currently scrape a living from selling my art and working in a proper job. I worked as a professional copywriter and editor for nearly 20 years so I enjoy putting those skills to use writing Wikitree profiles. My motto is: biographies for everybody!

My research

I first looked into my family history in 2000. My interest was piqued by an old photo belonging to my mother, which had names and dates written on the back of the frame. I was intrigued by the family's surname – Coggrave – and decided to try searching for it on a new-fangled website: familysearch.org. My mum got drawn into it too, and the rest is [family] history.

I've enjoyed discovering and getting to know my ancestors and their nearest and dearest. With maybe a couple of exceptions, nobody was even vaguely wealthy. Here are a few of the more interesting characters...

• George Atkinson, my great-great-great-great-grandfather, who was punched in a pub in Hull in 1844 by my partner's great-great-great-great-grandfather, Thomas Lazenby! (we've yet to go to Hull and settle it once and for all)
• Isabella Johnson, a “herring lassie” from Berwick-on-Tweed who followed the fleet to the East Anglian coast where she gutted and packed fish, met a Lowestoft fisherman and stayed there
• Lucy Howard, who was without her parents in the workhouse by the age of nine, went on to give birth to three illegitimate children in three different workhouses, but eventually married – only to die in the 1918 flu pandemic
• Mary Fuller (sister of my great-great-great grandfather), who married a Parisian chef who served in Queen Victoria’s household. (Mary was already married to someone else, but let's not dwell on that…)
• Dinah (or Diana) Gibson, who gave birth to my great-great-great grandfather Thomas, a “natural child”, but left him in Yorkshire when she emigrated to Quebec around 1815. She has lots of descendants who account for many of my Canadian and American DNA matches
• James Smart, who, despite my mother’s doubts, really was captured by the Germans in World War I and survived (though his dad sold James’ piano while he was away)
• Theodosius Jarlan, the Protestant minister who fled France with his family after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, and became an Anglican priest in Colchester.
• George Coggrave, a labourer who became a railway goods foreman and union man, died aged 70 in 1922 – when he was said to be the oldest man in the port town of Goole.
• James Smart, who, when his wife Maria died, married her sister Mary (which was illegal at that time). Actually, William Beckitt did the same thing, first marrying Jane Hague Atkinson and after her death, marrying her sister Sarah. All these people lived in Hull. I'm not sure if this was a Hull thing...
• I'm descended from a hairdresser, some builders, a higgler, a family of innkeepers and blacksmiths, a fleet of fishermen, a field of agricultural labourers, a whole factory’s worth of shoemakers, and many, many hardworking housewives.
• When I did a month's temping at the Dr Martens factory, I unwittingly represented the sixth (and last) generation of Fullers to work in the Northamptonshire shoe industry.

Projects on WikiTree

• I'm the leader of the Coggrave One-Name Study. If you have Coggraves (or Cograves) in your tree or you've spotted any nearby, I'd love to hear from you.
• I'm also working (slowly) on a One-Place Study for Eastrington, Yorkshire. It's just a small village but bigger than I thought, as it turns out...
• I'm a member of the Fuller One-Name Study
• I've written a guide to English sources for WikiTree, aimed at helping people who aren't familiar with the sources available in England. Please have a look and see what you think.

Freespace pages

• Transcript of the Will of Richard Polye or Little Addington, 1627
• Transcript of the Will of Robert Coggrave of Hemingbrough, 1688
• Transcript of the Will of Robert Coggrave of Newton, 1748
• Transcript of the Will of John Easton of Pocklington, 1757
• Transcript of the Will of John Easton of Pocklington, 1770
• Transcript of the Will of Robert Coggrave of Sandholme, 1775
• Transcript of the Will of Richard Thorp of Faxfleet, 1783

"Ethnicity estimates"

My "ethnicity"

My parents and I tested with Ancestry in 2018. Its "ethnicity estimate" is usually updated once per year as they aim to improve their analysis. Over the years Ancestry has changed how it defines some of the regions used (eg. what was termed "England, Wales & North West Europe" in 2018 has now been broken down further, while Sweden and Denmark are now treated as one region).

It's interesting to see how the percentages have been adjusted (though of course our DNA hasn't changed!). These "ethnicities" go back further than nearly any of my family tree - 500 to 1,000 years.

According to Ancestry, my ethnicity estimate is:

Genetic Communities: England & North-western Europe

• East Midlands, Yorkshire & North England
  • Lincolnshire to Cumbria
  • Eastern Yorkshire & Lincolnshire
  • East Riding & Northern Lincolnshire

Paternal

My father's ethnicity estimate is:

Genetic Communities: England & North-western Europe

• East of England
  • East Anglia
  • Eastern Norfolk & Suffolk
  • Norfolk & North-eastern Cambridgeshire
  • Norfolk, Northern Suffolk & North-eastern Cambridgeshire
• Greater London to Southern East Midlands
  • Southern East Midlands & North-western East of England
• Eastern South East England
  • Greater London to Brighton
  • West Sussex, West Surrey & Eastern East Surrey & Kent

Maternal

My mother's ethnicity estimate is:

Genetic Communities: England & North-western Europe

• East Midlands, Yorkshire & North England
  • Lincolnshire to Cumbria
  • Eastern Yorkshire & Lincolnshire
  • East Riding & Northern Lincolnshire

Sources

DNA

DNA testing has opened up a whole new rabbit warren of research opportunities and I'm optimistic that it will solve some long-standing brickwalls. In particular I'm hoping to identify my mother's paternal grandfather. I think it's like a jigsaw puzzle, except the image is partly fuzzy and some of the pieces were swept under the carpet nearly a hundred years ago...

Please message me if you'd like to compare on Gedmatch.

Paternal

• Paternal relationship is confirmed by an AncestryDNA test match between Katie Fuller and her father. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: Parent, Child – immediate family member, based on sharing 3,473 cM across 54 segments; Confidence: Extremely High.
• Paternal relationship is confirmed by a 23andMe test match between Katie Fuller and her second cousin once removed. Their most recent common ancestors are Arthur Fuller and Annie Maud Howard. Predicted relationship from 23andMe: Second Cousin, based on sharing 2.23% (166cM) across 6 segments.
• Paternal relationship confirmed by an AncestryDNA test match with Katie's father and his third cousin. Their MRCAs are their great-great-grandparents, Robert Cooper and Isabella Johnson. Predicted relationship from Ancestry: 2nd-3rd cousin, based on sharing 137 cM across 7 segments.

Maternal

• Maternal relationship is confirmed by an AncestryDNA test match between Katie Fuller and her mother. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: Parent, Child – immediate family member, based on sharing 3,475 cM across 54 segments; Confidence: Extremely High.
• Maternal relationship is confirmed by an AncestryDNA test match between Katie Fuller and her first cousin, once removed. Their most recent common ancestors are James Smart and Beatrice Coggrave. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 1st-2nd Cousins, based on sharing 419 cM across 24 segments; Confidence: Extremely High.