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Memoirs of the Fultons of Lisburn LilSBU^N R-.I-J1. .Lr i> ^ -1 n National Library of Scotland *B000407002* Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from National Library of Scotland http://www.archive.org/details/memoirsoffultlisOOhope MEMOIRS OF THE FULTONS OF LISBURN MEMOIRS OF THE FULTONS OF LISBURN COMPILED BY SIR THEODORE C. HOPE, K.C.S.I. 5 CLE. BOMBAY CIVIL SERVICE (RETIRED) PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION '9°3 PREFACE In 1894 I was called upon by some members of the Fulton family, to which my mother and my wife belonged, for information as to their pedigree, and it gradually came about that, with their general consent and at the desire of Mr. Ashworth P. Burke, I revised the proofs of the account given in Burke's Colonial Gentry, published in 1895, ar) d eventually compiled the fuller and more accurate notice in Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, edition of 1898, Vol. II., Ireland, pp. 156-58. In the researches thus necessitated, a large number of incidents, dates, alliances, etc., came to light which were inadmissible into the formal Pedigree which was proved and recorded by the Heralds' College in the last-mentioned year, and could not be given within the limits (very liberal though they were) prescribed by Mr. Burke. To preserve, without intolerable prolixity, all available information, is the object of the following pages. The materials for this task originally at my disposal, in addition to the first notice in the Landed Gentry of 1862, consisted only of (1) a letter and some brief memoranda in the hand- writing of my uncle, John Williamson Fulton, with corrections thereon by his sister, Anne Hope (my mother), and a letter of hers to me, all falling within the period 1861-63, and (2) a long detailed account up to the then date which he dictated to me at Braidujle House in September 1872, with copies of McVeigh, Camac, Casement and Robinson pedigrees, which he then allowed me to make. These pedigrees in original, and other papers which he consulted while dictating, were not forthcoming after his death (10th November 1872), and are supposed to have been lost in a robbery which occurred at the house soon after that event. Beyond the above, my only sources of information were (1) inquiries of individuals, mostly members of the family, to whom my best thanks are due for their ready and invaluable help ; and (2) searches in the Public Records, especially in Dublin, the India Office, and the British Museum, as also in the Parish Registers of Lisburn, Derriaghy, and other localities. Monu- ments, books, newspapers, etc., also fell into this category. Throughout the matter, I have had the advantage of continuous correspondence since 1894 with my cousin, Dr. Robert Valpy Fulton of Dunedin, whose father James and uncle Robert were friends of my boyhood, when I was living with my grandmother Fulton at 4, Upper Harley Street, and they with their mother and aunts at Blackheath. He is an acute and zealous genealogist, and was already, when he first communicated with me, prosecuting inquiries in New Zealand, Jamaica, America, India, and England. We have freely exchanged all information we could collect, and discussed together the many difficult points, inconsistencies and doubts which arose, and I am deeply indebted vi PREFACE to his suggestions and encouragement. To our correspondence, which I have preserved complete, and to the detailed notes of searches, letters, etc., which will also be bound up in volumes, I must refer any one coming after me who desires to scrutinize the grounds of my own conclusions, or to prosecute new inquiries. If will readily be understood that in an undertaking of this nature, where, through incom- pleteness of public records and lack of really old family papers, many facts, dates, alliances, and the movements, occupations, etc., of individuals, had to be patiently sought out and connected into a consistent whole, conjecture and inference must, within reasonable bounds, be admitted, and some questions must remain insoluble. I can only hope that the account which I have done my best to present may not be devoid of interest to those for whom it is intended, and may prove to be fairly reliable. I must, in conclusion, beg the kind indulgence of my readers for whatever errors and defects they may discover, as well as for misprints, which I fear may have escaped my eye. Theodore Cracraft Hope. Christmas igo2. CONTENTS INTRODUCTORY PAGE CHAP. FULTON FAMILY I. THE .....••• 12 II. THE FULTON ARMS • . • • • '4 III. EARLY SETTLERS IN AND NEAR LISBURN . DETAILED ACCOUNT 16 IV. THE LADY ARABELLA STUART AND WILLIAM SEYMOUR . l8 V. DOCTOR FOLTON AND WILLIAM OF DERRIAGHY . • • . BELSIZE . VI. JOHN FULTON OF LISBURN AND DERRIAGHY OR 2 3 VII. RICHARD FULTON OF LISBURN, AND YOUNGER BROTHERS . • • • "6 VIII. JOHN FULTON OF DERRIAGHY ...•••• Toface 28 SKETCH PEDIGREE OF THE FULTONS—PART I ..... 2 9 IX. I —JAMES BRANCH .....•••• " CALCUTTA " BRANCH 43 X II—JOHN OF ...••• 4° XI. JOSEPH SECTION ......•••• 8 XII. JAMES (JUNIOR) SECTION . ...•••• 5 7° XIII. JOHN WILLIAMSON SECTION ..... To/ace 82 SKETCH PEDIGREE OF THE FULTONS—PART II ..... APPENDICES 83 A. CONFIRMATIONS OF ARMS, ETC. ........ 86 B. BRIEF MEMOIRS OF JAMES HOPE, ESQ., M.D., F.R.S., AND ANNE HIS WIFE, N&E FULTON . LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS W. = Will. W. C. = Will Connor. W. D. = Will Dromore, etc. W. P. C. = Will, Prerogative Court, Pr. = Proved. A. = Administration. L. R. = Lisburn Cathedral Register. L. P. R. = Lisburn Presbyterian Register. M. = Monument. M. L. = Monument at Lisburn, etc R. = a Parish Register of the place named. D. R. = Dublin Registry Office, Henrietta Street. D. 4. = Dublin Four Courts Record Office. I. O. R. = India Office Registers, or Records. A. L. = Army List. MIL. = Militia List. D. M. = Dodwell and Miles' Indian Army List. B. N. L. = Belfast Newsletter. B. M. = Belfast Mercury. J. W. F. = John Williamson Fulton's Memoranda, 1661-63, and Account, 1872. b. = born. bap. = baptized. bur. = buried. m. = married. d. = died. ed. = educated. s. = son, or succeeded. dan. = daughter. — MEMOIRS OF THE FULTONS OF LISBURN CHAPTER I THE FULTON FAMILY The following preliminary sketch has been compiled from various notes made by Dr. Robert Valpy Fulton, of Dunedin, N.Z., and other sources. I. With regard to the origin of the name, one writer says that Fulton, Fulltown, Fowltown, Fowlertown, Fullertown, and Fullerton come from a member of the king's household, who in A.D. 1205 was granted a royal charter by King John, to supply the royal table with game. There are two probable roots of the name Fitgl, meaning a bird or fowl, and Ful, meaning foul, muddy, swampy, etc., the one deriving it from the nature of the locality, the other from its visitants. The name Fullerton probably had a different origin, from either a fuller, a cloth-worker, or some Saxon name like Folkher. At any rate, Fulton and its variations are from very early dates clearly distinguishable from Fullerton, and the former is never found with the latter in one family. The Fultons appear to have been of Saxon origin, and at an early date to have migrated up the east coast, eventually settling in Ayrshire, where to this clay the)- exist in considerable numbers. II. There is, however, reason to believe that the whole of the Fultons did not migrate to Scotland. It will be seen, in the remarks upon arms farther on, that there were in the time of the Crusades a certain knight, Sir de Fulton de Holt—presumably the place of that name in Norfolk—and, in 1604, a Fulton family in Shropshire. There is also the indication, such as it is, afforded by the charter of King John just mentioned. At the present day, the name is of rare occurrence in England. Even in London and its suburbs, there are scarcely any outside the family of Sir Forrest Fulton. It is of course quite possible that the Fultons of Lisburn may have migrated to Ireland from the southern remnant which evidently still existed early in the seventeenth century, and the arms they are found using a century later seem to support this alternative, but on the whole I incline to think that they came from Ayrshire, which we certainly know did supply to Ulster others of the name. —— io MEMOIRS OF THE FULTONS OF LISBURN III. Regarding early Ayrshire Fultons, the following particulars may be noted. Robertus, son and heir of Sir Robert de Cunningham, is witness in the confirmation of the lands of Inglistoun by Thomas, son of Adam Carpentarius. This is thought, by the names of the ten witnesses, comprising John Knox and Thomas of Fultown, to have been in the time of Alexander III. 1249-85. Nicholas of Ranilston was witness to a charter granted by Sir Antony Lambart, of the lands of Fulton to the monks of Paisley, 1272. Thomas of Fultown and his spouse Matilda had a charter from Stephen, the Abbot of Paisley, in 1272, of their lands of Fultown between Kert and Gryffe. Thomas de Fultown was witness to the charter of Stewardton to the abbot and monks of Paisley in 1281. Alan, the son of Thomas of Foulton, Nicol of Foulton, and Henry of Foulton are included in the list of magnates in Strathgryffe who swore fealty to Edward I. as king paramount in 1296. That list contains the names of thirty-six, including the ancestors of Eglintoun, Glencairn, Dundonald and Mar, Denistown of that ilk, Ralston of that ilk, and others connected with the historical records of Ayrshire, and who "held of the Lord High Stewards." The lands of Fultown were alienated to the monks of Paisley in 1 38 1, _/>/£» salute animce suae, and again in 1409 we find one William Uric resigning these lands in an instrument entitled " Resignationes de assedatione terrarum de Fulton." This was a lease of the lands of Fulton which formed a portion of the estate of Craigends, anno 1488 ; next, we find in the rent of the Abbacy of Paisley, in the year 1500, Johne de Fowlton and the mill lands, etc., in a long lease anent thirlage services.
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