Memoirs of the Fultons of Lisburn

JAMES BRANCH 35
the linen firm of James Ward and Co., 10, Linenhall Street, Belfast, District Manager of the Norwich Union
Fire Insurance Co. He was b. 19th June 1844 ; ;;/., 26th January 1871, Susan Margaretta Grant, and has a
son, James Frederick Ward (b. 7th December 1873), and nine other children. The late Colonel James Ward,
C.B., was a son of James Ward of Strawberry Hill by his second wife, Margaret Craig {in. 7th April iSi4), a
and inherited a share in the " Lisburn Damask Factory" from his relative James Coulson. He was called to
the Bar in 1867, and J. P. for cos. Down and Antrim. He joined the Volunteers in i860, and was Command-
ant of the London Irish Rifles (26th Middlesex Volunteers) from 1S83 to 1S96. I made his acquaintance in
1896, and he d. 16th April 1897.
4. Jane, /;. 30th April ; b bap. 3rd May- 1 1782; in. 6th June i8o5, a Francis Abbott
Thompson of Lisburn (/■>. 1 7S3), 13 eldest son of William Thompson (1763-1843), who ;//.
Dora Abbot 1781.
The Thompsons are a family of very old standing in Lisburn and Derriaghy, there being in the
Cathedral Register alone, between 1665 and 1712, thirty-eight baptisms of the name (then usually spelt
Tomson), and it seems probable that the Thomas Tomson who ;//. Elizabeth, dau. of John Fulton of
Derriaghy, belonged to it. Jane d. 9th July 1840, and her husband in March 1865.° They had, besides
other children :
(1) William, M.D., F.R.C.S., of Lisburn ; b. 7th March 1806; d. 22nd September 1882; ;;/.
Rosina, widow of Maxwell, sister of Right Hon. Sir James Weir Hogg, 1st Baron Magheramorne,
and had issue, (a) William (1834-S2), Col. 3rd Madras Cavalry ; (i) Stewart (1835-62), of the Madras
C.S. ; (c) Mary Hogg, in., 1st, George Mitchell, 2nd, James Bruce of Belfast, and founded in her father's
memory the " Thompson Memorial Home for Incurables " at Lisburn ; she d. in May 1894.
(2) Francis, b. 2nd November 181 1 ; Surgeon Bengal Medical Service; retired 1848 ; now of the
Firs, Braunton, N. Devon ; in. 1st, 1S44, Catherine Perceval Jeremie, by whom (d. 1849) he has now
surviving, Henry Corbitt (b. 1844), who emigrated to Australia, now living in Melbourne, ///. Letitia
Maria Martin (co. Galway family), and has Frank Stewart Corbitt, B.M. Edin., of Indian Med. Service,
China Exp. Medal, now in ch. XX Bombay N. I., Alipur ; also Mary Kate, in., 1900, Chas. Bryan
Ward of Sheffield.
Francis, m. 2ndly, in 1857, Mary Anne Elizabeth Creyke (Burke's Landed Gentry, Creyke of
Rawcliffe Hall and Marton), by whom he has now surviving Willoughby Frank {b. i860) of the Firs,
J. P., late Capt. in Militia Batt. Royal Irish Fusiliers : in., 1893, his cousin, Katie Burns, and has dau.
Mary Elizabeth, b. 1S96.
(3) Jane, bap. 3rd October 1822 ; a in., 1842 or 1843, Adam Glasgow, and emigrated to New
Zealand. She is now living in Dunedin with unmarried dau. Frances. Her elder son, William,
formerly Secretary to Government, now Inspector of Customs, resides in Wellington, having a wife and
three children. The younger son, James, is a banker, in., and has four children.
5. Mary Ann, bap. 30th September i7S3. ;lb In her later years she lived with her sisters
Grace and Ellen in Catherine Place, Bangor, co. Down. No record of their deaths is forth-
coming in the Cathedral Registers, except an imperfect one of Ellen, but it is believed that
they were all buried in a plot in Bangor Cathedral churchyard, which I found entered in the
Graves Register in the name of James Fulton as comprising three graves. The Dean informed
me that the Burial Register contained only such interments as took place with the rites of
the Church of Ireland, and the Presbyterian minister assured me that he had no old
records at all. Miss Anne H. M'Culloch of 6, Mount Oriel, Bangor (sister of the late Mrs.
Henry Fulton of Liverpool) informed me in 1897 that she well remembered the Miss Ful-
tons, and she looked up a Mrs. Clark, who had, as a girl, been sewing-maid to them till her
marriage in 1856 (when a Mrs. Carr was their housekeeper), and also a daughter of the
Presbyterian minister of those days. From their accounts it appears there first died with
them a nephew, a captain, to their great sorrow. This was evidently Capt. H. S. M. D.
Fulton, son of Lt.-Col. James Fulton, whose burial I then found in the Bangor Register as
on 10th March 1853. Miss Mary Ann died after (as I understand) her brother the Colonel
(James, K.H., d. December 1854), but several years before the other two sisters. As the
General Registry Act did not come into force till 1864, there are no means of ascertaining
her date.
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