Thomas Fulljames (died 1847) was a land surveyor in

Gloucestershire Gloucestershire ( abbreviated Glos) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn and the entire Forest of Dean. The county town is the city of Gl ...

lord of the manor Lord of the Manor is a title that, in Anglo-Saxon England, referred to the landholder of a rural estate. The lord enjoyed manorial rights (the rights to establish and occupy a residence, known as the manor house and demesne) as well as s ...

, and justice of the peace.

Family

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.Carne, Brian
"Thomas Fulljames, 1808–74: Surveyor, Architect, and Civil Engineer"
, '' Transactions of the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society'', Volume 113, 1995, pp. 7–20. In 1797 he married Sophia Greaves in Hayes, Kent. The couple had no children. His nephew was the architect also named

Thomas Fulljames Thomas Fulljames FRIBA (4 March 1808 – 24 April 1874) was an architect active in Gloucestershire, England, in the first half of the nineteenth century. As diocesan surveyor from 1832 until 1870, latterly in partnership with Frederick Sand ...

Career

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 Hasfield Court is a Grade II* listed building in Hasfield, Gloucestershire, England. Hasfield Court was the site of a medieval manor house, the home of the Pauncefoot family from about 1200. It includes Tudor panelling with the initials of Rich ...

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

Death

Fulljames died in 1847.

References

1847 deaths Year of birth missing English surveyors Lords of the Manor English justices of the peace {{England-bio-stub