Thomas Fulljames (surveyor)

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Thomas Fulljames (died 1847) was a land surveyor in Gloucestershire, lord of the manor, and justice of the peace.

Family[edit]

Fulljames was the son of Thomas Fulljames, a Kent schoolteacher. He had a brother, Trophimus Fulljames, who also became a land surveyor, and a sister Harriet who married advantageously to James Wintle.[1]

In 1797 he married Sophia Greaves in Hayes, Kent. The couple had no children. His nephew was the architect also named Thomas Fulljames.[1]

Career[edit]

Fulljames developed a successful practice in Gloucestershire from the 1790s. By 1800 he was farming in Ashleworth where he was also lord of the manor. In 1806 he purchased Hasfield Court and by 1826 had expanded the estate to 200 acres. In 1844 he purchased the Hasfield manor estate and with it land in Corse and Ashleworth.[1]

He served as a justice of the peace in the counties of Gloucestershire and Worcestershire.[1]

Death[edit]

Fulljames died in 1847.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Carne, Brian. "Thomas Fulljames, 1808–74: Surveyor, Architect, and Civil Engineer" Archived 4 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Transactions of the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Volume 113, 1995, pp. 7–20.
  2. ^ David Verey & Alan Brooks. (2002). The Buildings of England Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and the Forest of Dean (3rd ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 105. ISBN 9780300097337.