Memoirs of the Fultons of Lisburn

28 MEMOIRS OF THE FULTONS OF LISBURN
allowed by the widow to see the rough MS. of this history, which Mr. F. O. Fisher had
edited for the deceased. One chapter mentions that Margaret married " Mr. Fulton," but does
not give his Christian name, or the names of the two sons and two daughters which it says
she had by him. Mr. J. Burgess Camac's elder brother, Dr. William Camac of Woodvale,
Philadelphia, U.S.A., to whom I then applied, answered that he could not find anything on the
subject in his old papers. I have also inquired of various Camacs who are scattered in Antrim
and Down, but none of them know anything of such old times. The first portion of the Camac
history was privately printed in 1897 by Mr. Fisher, who kindly gave me a copy; but the rest
is still in MS.
John of Derriaghy, to whom I now revert, had thus five children by Margaret Camac :
Elizabeth, dates of birth and baptism unknown, m. Thomas Tomson, son John bap.
1 71 2.
James, bap. 26th May 1692, of whom presently.
Joan, bap. 21st January 1694, who seems to have died in childhood.
Mary, bap. 26th February 1696 (also called Mary Ann ?), married James Kenley,
a merchant and linen agent of Lisburn, and was alive in 1801, when her brother John
" of Calcutta " put a legacy of £1 50 for her into his will of that date. They had several
children, of whom the more notable was John, who was in large business in Lisburn in
the latter part of the century (see below, p. 32). Personally, I am disposed to think
that the Mary Ann to whom the legacy was left was not this Mary, but born at the
later period suggested on p. 26.
Margaret, date of birth and baptism unknown, but she appears in the Lisburn
Cathedral Register as having married Alexander McAuly on 29th October 1745. Six
of their children are in the Lisburn Presbyterian Register between 1746 and 1758.
My own impression is that Mr. Alexander Macaulay of Glenville, near Dunmurry,
whose daughter married Captain James Higginson of the 10th Regt. Foot, on 6th
November 1803, was a son of theirs. John's will above-mentioned also provides a
legacy of .£25 each "to the four daughters of my late sister Margaret McAulay," and
a Miss Macaulay held seats in the Presbyterian Meeting House at this period. Sir
James Macaulay Higginson, K.C.B., was a son of the Captain and his wife nie Macaulay
and a cousinship with the Higginsons was recognized in my recollection.
John, date of birth and baptism unknown, probably after 1812.
No record of the death of Margaret Camac is to be found, but there are no Fulton burials
in the registers at Lisburn from 171 2 to 1767, and next to none at Derriaghy of any one for an
even longer period.