Memoirs of the Fultons of Lisburn

JOHN FULTON OF DERRIAGHY 27
husband of Lady Riche) obtaining the command in Ireland in 1601, George Camock, a son of
Thomas by a first wife, emigrated to Ireland to push the above-mentioned claim. In this he
failed, and died at Ballymoney in 1610, leaving three sons, one of whom, at least, remained in
Ireland, and was the ancestor of some Camocks at Dervock, and the father of Thomas Camock,
afterwards of Comber.
Thomas Camock the elder, of Ballymoney, was born circa 1632, but left his kinsmen in
Ballymoney in order to take up land adjoining that of his father-in-law on marrying Janet j
daughter of a Mr. Moses Cunningham, who held under Hugh, Viscount Montgomery, a farm in
the townland of Ballyalloly near Comber, co. Down, which they eventually inherited. Their
grandson John married Margaret Johnston, a cousin of Sir Robert Magill of Gill Hall, near
Dromore, whose father John Johnston " had taken the name of Magill. Owing to this connec-
tion, Sir Robert now granted to the young couples' father, Thomas Camock, the younger,
the lease of the Kilfallert and Clogher lands in the parish of Maralin. This Thomas the
younger had two other sons William and Thomas, and two daughters, Margaret and Jane,
of whom the former became the wife of John Fulton of Derriaghy. At one time it
was supposed that Margaret had been the wife of Richard, but the point was settled by
John's will, already alluded to, in which he names as executors " his loving brothers John
Camak and Anthony Black, the former being Margaret's brother, and the latter the husband of
her sister Jane. Margaret received a legacy, as " Margaret Fulton " in her brother John's will
quoted above, and another as "my daughter Margaret Fulton" in the will of her father, Thomas
"the younger" (dated 19th January 170.V, Pr. Dro. 24th April 1735). Her grandmother, Janet
Camock ah. Cunningham of Ballyalloly, too, leaves her property b to her grandchildren by her
son Thomas, of whom Margaret was one. As to the locality of the marriage I think it must
have been Ballyalloly, as her father had probably not acquired the new Kilfallert home at the
time it took place. Ballyalloly house is beautifully situated among the hills of Lower Castlereagh,
on the border of a small lake not far to the south-west of Comber, and close to Moneyreagh.
Ballybeen, a part of the property, is near to it, and both houses, at a considerable elevation, and
surrounded by rich woods, must have been charming residences. The county round Maralin, of
rolling, well-wooded hills is also very attractive, all the way from Lurgan to Dromore. Of Kilfallert
house no vestiges remain, but I have visited its site, as also Maralin, where are various monuments
of the family. Margaret's nephew John, son of Thomas, married a daughter and co-heiress of Jacob
Turner of Lurgan, and their numerous family were mostly notable in the eighteenth to nineteenth
century. The eldest son, Colonel Jacob Camac, married a daughter of the Raja of Kamghur, and
having made a large fortune in India lived in style at Kilfallert and Greenmount, co. Louth. His
next brother, Captain Turner Camac, married a daughter of William Masters of Pennsylvania, and
there were five other brothers, of whom two at least, William Camac of Mansfield Street, and
Sir George Burgess Camac, as also an old Mrs. Camac, were known to, and in the social circle of
my grandfather, John Williamson Fulton of 4, Upper Harley Street, London. The effect of
the Masters' marriage, however, was that the eldest grandson, William Camac, M.D., is settled
in Philadelphia, and also his sister is the wife of Mr. Hewson Cox of that city. The other son,
John Burgess Camac settled at Dinard, and died in 1897. But the whole Irish property had
been before then sold and divided, and the extensive family records removed to Dr. William
Camac's place, Woodvale, in Pennsylvania. On learning from the Rector of Maralin that Mr. J.
Burgess Camac had taken great pains to collect the history and genealogy of the Camac
family, I wrote to the address, La Roche Pendente, Dinard, but found he had died only three
months before. Having a friend at Dinard, I went there in May 1897, and with his aid was
a Margaret was the daughter of Archibald Johnston by Mary his wife, who was the daughter of David Johnston of
Monaghan. Sir John Magill, alias Johnston, was a son of David's brother, Lieut. William Johnston, and so was Mary's first
cousin. Thus, Thomas Camac became the tenant of his young daughter-in-law's cousin,
b W. Dro. 28th September 1710.