IRELAND AND NEW ENGLAND ROOTS

Fultons in Ireland

The name of Fulton is found in the reign of Edward the First, A.D. 1296 connected with the Parish of Beith in the County of Ayrshire, Scotland, attached to a Parliamentary roll or document acknowledging Edward I as Kynge Paramounte.

During the reign of Elizabeth, the Irish had been universally engaged in the rebellion and in 1611, the Province of Ulster fell to the Crown a company was established in London for planting new colonies in that fertile country. One branch of the Fulton family came over at this time from Ayrshire and settled in and around Lisburn and Belfast, Northern Ireland. William Fulton, the son of Rev. Dr. Fulton, chaplain to Lady Arabella Stuart, Marchioness of Hertford, near London, settled in Kilkenny in 1612.⁽¹⁾

1. William Fulton⁽²⁾, lived at Derriaghy and died in 1638. He married Elizabeth ------, who was buried July 31, 1674. Their children were:

+ 2. i. John of Lisburn, born 1623
+ 3. ii. Richard, born 1624
...4. iii. James
+ 5. iv. Thomas, born before 1638
+ 6. v. William, born before 1638

Children:

. .7. i. Paul
. .8. ii. Janet
+ 9. iii. John, born 1653
+10. iv. Robert
+ 11. v. Hugh, born 1659
12. vi. Ann
13. vii. Thomas of Blaris, born 1663; married 15 December 1687, Ann Meredith of Blaris.

His children were:
 

14. i. Thomas
15. ii. James
16. iii. Thomas
17. iv. William

18. William of Cork

19. William of Kilkenny

9. John Fulton was born in 1653; he was married 18 December 1667 to Margaret English; he married 2) February, 1690, Margaret Carnac.

John Fulton had seven children:
 

20. i. Elizabeth
21. ii. Mary Ann
22. iii. James Carnac
23. iv. John, died young
24. v. Mary
25. vi. Margaret
26. vii. John

10. Robert Fulton

Only two children listed:

27. i. James

11. Hugh Fulton was born in 1659; he was married 20 February 1681 to Elinor Johnson of Denaghy (?Donaghadee), Ireland.

Their children were:
 

29. i. William, baptized 1683; son John baptized 1709 at Diviaghy
30. ii. Robert, baptized 1685
31. iii. Jane, baptized 1686
32. iv. James, baptized 1690
33. v. John, baptized 1692
34. vi. Thomas, baptized 1694

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1. ¹Tyler's Quarterly Magazine. pp. 122, 123. Title page and volume number lost. Record of the Fulton Family as edited by Dr. Fulton of New Zealand. Communicated by Elizabeth J. Tyler, Seven Mile Ford, Virginia. (Also found in Genealogies of Virginia Families, Vol. I, p. 790-791).

2. ²William Edwards Book relating to his own History, Compiled by Leonard, Clarence Etienne--Fulton, Hayden, Warner lineage. 1923 states William Fulton was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, but this is incorrect in view of the 1612 colonization period. For him to have been born in Kilkenny, he would have had to have been born after 1612 and could not have had a child by 1623.