Memoirs of the Fultons of Lisburn

3 6 MEMOIRS OF THE FULTONS OF LISBURN
6. Grace, bap. 14th November 1784. 1 ' 11 Lived at Bangor, as above stated, and became
blind, but survived all her sisters. Miss M'Culloch knew her the best, and a Capt. Jackson
(a " sea captain " ?) also took a great interest in her. She d. 1st August 1865.°
7. Sarah, b. 4th December 1784, d. 1st February 1802. 1 ' 11 Nothing known of her.
8. Ellen, b. 4th July i/S/', hd bap. 27th August/ 1 See above, d. 1 ith June 1864.°
JAMES FORREST, b. 30th September, 1 ' bap. 7th October i7So, a already entered above as third
son of Richard Fulton ; Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, 1838 ; Ensign
Northampton F'encible Infantry, 1st May, 1798, Lieut. 12th March 1799 ; Ensign 38th Foot,
20th March 1801, Lieut. 8th December 1803; Capt. 98th Foot, 22nd May 1804; Major by
Brevet, 28th November 1812 ; Major, Canadian Fencible Infantry, 27th October 1814; on the
escape of Napoleon from Elba, he was ordered home to take part in the campaign, but
arrived just too late, the news of the victory of Waterloo having met him on landing ; Major,
halfpay, ditto, 27th October 18 16 ; Major 92nd Foot, 20th March 1823 ; Lieut-Col. by Brevet, 1st
November 1815. Retired by sale, 13th May, 1824, and settled in Belgium ; granted local rank
of Lieut-Col. on the Continent, 24th November 1825. His eldest surviving son, Richard Robert,
has at Parsonstown, King's Co., a portrait of him as a boy, and his youngest son, Sir Forrest, has
a fine miniature of him, of which a photographic enlargement is with his granddaughter, Mrs.
Ruttledge, at Woodville, near Parsonstown, having been sent to her by Dr. Robert V. Fulton of
Dunedin.
James was for many years on service in Canada, especially as A.D.C. to Lieut-Gen. Sir
George Prevost, Governor-General and Commander of the Forces in Canada, and afterwards in
the Canadian Fencible Infantry. He was twice mentioned in despatches. The London Gazette
Extraordinary, 27th November 1S12, shows that as A.D.C. he was sent home with despatches
dated 21st October 1S12, announcing the victory repelling General Wadworth's invasion of
Canada, and that General's capture. He is said to be " very capable of affording such informa-
tion as your Lordship may require respecting the state of H.M.'s Canadian Provinces." Again,
the London Gas. Ext., 25th July 1813, contains a report by Colonel Baynes, of his unsuccessful
attack on Sackett's Harbour, ending " I feel most grateful to your Excellency's kind consideration
in allowing your A.D.C.'s, Majors Coone and F'ulton, to accompany me in the field, and to these
officers for the able assistance they afforded me." Major Fulton is not one of the officers men-
tioned in Sir G. Prevost's despatch of 30th October 1813 {London Gas. Ext., 21st December
1813), relative to the action of Chateauguay, but he had, with the silver war medal, the clasp for
that affair. It is a tradition of the family that on some occasion during the war he made a
daring night ride through the enemy's lines. In later life, when residing in Belgium, he acted as
Consul at Ostend for short periods in 1848 and 1849.°
He in. first, on 24th August 1807, at St. Paul's, Halifax, Nova Scotia, by licence, Penelope
FYances Bowyer, sister of Major William Atkins-Bowyer, of 59th Regt. Foot, who, in 1803,
was Brigade-Major to the Forces at Halifax, and only dan. of Richard Bowyer (son of Sir
William Bowyer of Radley), who took the prefix of Atkins on succeeding Sir Richard Atkins,
Bart., as Lord of the Manor of Clapham. f Those Bowyers were cousins of the Willoughbys and
Fryers, old friends of the Harley Street Fultons. In November 1894 I met at Mr. Beaumont
Hankey's, 15, Southwell Gardens, S.W., two nieces of Penelope's, Misses Mary Theresa and
Emily Frances Bowyer, who remembered her and also her sons, especially Richard Robert, very
well. He told me last September, when I was at Parsonstown, that Miss Mary had been a great
friend of his. She died in 1895, aged at least 80. Mr. Hankey's late wife, Eleanor Catherine,
was a younger sister of these ladies.
a L. P. R. b T. ° Dublin General Registry Office. <* M. L.
e For. Office Letter, 16th July 1S98. f Correspondence with Richard Robert Fulton.