Thomas de Fulford, Sir

Thomas Fulford1
Last Edited 25 May 2016
M, #173922, b. circa 1551, d. 31 July 1610
Father John Fulford1 b. c 1526, d. 23 Aug 1580
Mother Anne Dennis1 b. c 1527, d. 31 Mar 1586
Thomas Fulford was born circa 1551 at of Great Fulford, Devonshire, England.1 He married Ursula Bamfield, daughter of Richard Bamfield and Elizabeth Sydenham, circa 1574 at Devonshire, England.1 Thomas Fulford died on 31 July 1610 at Great Fulford, Devonshire, England.1
Family
Ursula Bamfield b. c 1552, d. 11 Dec 1639
Child

• Jane Fulford+1 b. c 1576

Citations
1.[S11597] Ancestry.com, Information submitted by lpalwickgoebel.
From: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p5792.htm...
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Sir Thomas Fulford
Birth 1553
Death 31 Jul 1610 (aged 56–57)
Dunsford, Teignbridge District, Devon, England
Burial St Mary Churchyard
Dunsford, Teignbridge District, Devon, England
Find a Grave Memorial ID: 27852800
On the base are the life-size figures of Sir Thomas Fulford and his wife Ursula. The male figure is arrayed in steel armour picked out in gold. He wears an Elizabethan ruff and wristbands, and a red velvet tunic and pantaloons; the head and hands are bare. His wife wears a dress of the same period with a trimming of gilt quatrefoils down the front, a ruff and flat head-dress. On a ledge at the back of the tomb kneel their children; the first figure in the row kneels before a desk. On the tomb is a shield with the arms of Fulford impaling Bamfield.
Inscription
Heare lye Sir Thomas Fulforde
who died last day of july ano do 1610
Also his wife Ursula, who died 1639
daughter of Richd Bamfield, of Poltimore, Esq.
Their Children
1st Sir Francis, who married Ann heir of Bernard Samways Esqr of Toller Dorset
2nd William,
3rd Thomas,
4th Bridget married to Arthur Champerknowne Esqr of Dartington;
5th Elizabeth married to John Berriman Esq,
6th Ann, married to John Sydenham, of Somerset
Family Members
Spouse
Ursula Bamfield Fulford
unknown–1639

Children
Bridget Fulford Champernowne
1578 – unknown

Colonel Francis Fulford
1583–1664

MAry Fulford Achym Gorges
1586–1623
From: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27852800/thomas_fulford
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• FULFORD, John (1524/25-80), of Fulford, Devon.
• b. 1524/25, 1st s. of Sir John Fulford of Fulford by Dorothy, da. of John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath. m. (1) by 1553, Anne, da. of Sir Thomas Denys of Holcombe Burnell and Bicton, 6s. 5da.; (2) 30 Jan. 1570, Eleanor, da. of Bernard Smith of Totnes, wid. of John Charles (d. 17 Aug. 1568), of Tavistock. suc. fa. 14 Nov. 1544. Kntd. ?2 Oct. 1553.
• .... After his second marriage he completed a lavish rebuilding of his house, and it was there that he died on 23 Aug. 1580. He was succeeded by his son Thomas, then 27 years old and more. His will, which was proved at Exeter in 1581, was destroyed in an air raid in 1942. His widow married in succession John Wrey and Ambrose Bellot†.3
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/fu...

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Sir Francis Fulford (c. 1583 – 1664) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1625.
Biography
Fulford was the son of Sir Thomas Fulford (1553-1610) of Fulford in the parish of Dunsford, Devon and Ursula Bampfield (died 1639), daughter of Richard Bampfield of Poltimore, and was baptised at the Church of St Mary Major, Exeter on 1 September 1583. He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford on 16 February 1599, aged 15 and was a student of Middle Temple in 1601. He was knighted on 26 February 1606. He succeeded his father in 1610, inheriting the family seat of Great Fulford. His parents' effigy in the Fulford Chapel, Dunsford Church still survives.
In 1625, he was elected member of parliament for Devon.[1] He served as a Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset by 1640 and was appointed High Sheriff of Dorset for 1642–43.[2]
During the English Civil War he was an active royalist and was captured and briefly imprisoned in Devon in early 1643. He maintained a garrison at Great Fulford until December 1645, when he surrendered to Thomas Fairfax. His eldest son Thomas was killed during the war. He was allowed to compound for his estates. Viewed with understandable suspicion by the Cromwellian regime, he lived quietly on his estates until the Restoration of Charles II.
He married Elizabeth, the daughter and co-heiress of Bernard Samways of Winterbourne St. Martin and Toller Fratrum, Dorset, with whom he had 7 sons (several of whom predeceased him) and 6 daughters. The marriage led to a lengthy lawsuit with his brother-in-law Sir Francis Ashley, who married Elizabeth's sister and co-heiress Anne. Fulford died at the age of about 80 between 7 January 1664 when he made his will and 2 May 1664 when it was proved. He was buried at Toller Fratrum.[1] His eldest son having been killed, his Devon estates passed to his grandson Francis and the Dorset estate to his younger son George.[2]
etc.
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Fulford_(politician)
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Sir Thomas Fulford (1553–1610) (son), who in 1580 married Ursula Bampfield (died 1639), a daughter of Richard Bampfield (1526–1594) of Poltimore, Devon, Sheriff of Devon in 1576, ancestor of the Bampfield Baronets and Barons Poltimore. His monument survives in Dunsford Church, showing recumbent effigies of himself dressed in full armour and his wife with kneeling figures of his children above, 3 sons and 4 daughters, with profuse heraldry on the cornice of Fulford impaling the arms of various wives, including Bampfield: Or, on a bend gules three mullets argent. It is inscribed on two painted wooden panels:

"Heare lyethe Sir Thomas Fulforde who died last day of July Ano Do. 1610. Also his wife Ursula who died 1639 daughter of Richd Bampfield of Poltimore Esqr. Their children: 1st Sir Francis who married Ann heir of Bernard Samways Esqr of Toller, Dorset; 2nd William; 3rd Thomas; 4th Bridget, married to Arthur Champernown Esqr of Dartington; 5th Elizabeth married to John Berriman Esqr; 6th Ann married to John Sydenham of Somerset" The monument was restored in 1845 by Col. Baldwin Fulford. "The original inscription apparently spoke poisonously of the Roman Catholic Church...at the instigation of a Roman Catholic friend, Dr. Oliver, Col. Baldwin Fulford had the monument restored in 1845, so a new inscription was supplied". The name of Mary, the 4th daughter whose effigy appears on the monument, is omitted. She was the 2nd wife of Sir Ferdinando Gorges (1565/8-1647), founder of the Province of Maine, known as the "Father of English Colonization in North America".

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• FULFORD, Sir Francis (1583-1664), of Great Fulford, Dunsford, Devon and Toller Fratrum, Dorset
• bap. 1 Sept. 1583, 1st s. of Thomas Fulford of Gt. Fulford and Ursula, da. of Richard Bampfield of Poltimore, Devon.1 educ. Brasenose, Oxf. 1599; M. Temple 1601.2 m. 14 Sept. 1601, Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Bernard Samways of Winterbourne St. Martin and Toller Fratrum, Dorset, 7s. (3 d.v.p.) 6da. (2 d.v.p.).3 kntd. 26 Feb. 1605;4 suc. fa. 1610.5 admon. 2 May 1664.6
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/fu...

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• CHAMPERNOWNE, Arthur (1580-c.1650), of Dartington, nr. Totnes, Devon
• b. 25 May 1580,1 1st s. of Gawen Champernowne of Dartington and Roberta, da. of Gabriel de l’Orge, comte de Montgomery; stepbro. to Sir John* and Thomas Horner*.2 educ. M. Temple 1598.3 m. 17 June 1598, Bridget, da. of Sir Thomas Fulford of Fulford, Devon, 6s. 7da.4 suc. fa. 1592.5 admon. 1650.6 sig. Ar[thur] Champernowne.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/ch...

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