Memoirs of the Fultons of Lisburn

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Mrs. James Forrest Fulton (of whom her son Richard Robert has a miniature) died of con-
sumption at Ostend in 1S36, having had issue (besides several who died young) :
1. George James, b. 1817 in Canada. Ensign 77th Foot, 13th February 1835 ; ex-
changed into 62nd Foot 3rd June 1836; Lieut, nth May 1838. Drowned accidentally at
Moulmein, Burma, in December 1840, when embarking to go on sick leave, d. unm.
2. William Cornelius Bowyer, b. 1S1S, at Ghent. 2nd-Lieut Royal Engineers, iSth
June 1836; d. unm. 24th May 1838, at Ostend, a aged 20. His brother Richard Robert
has a portrait of him, which came to him from his father (the K.H.) through his aunts who
died at Bangor, co. Down.
3. Henry Seymour Moore Donelly, b. nth February 1822. Ensign 62nd Foot, 8th
January 1841 ; Lieut. 1st November 1842 ; exchanged into 49th Foot, 31st May 1844 ; Capt.
15th December 1S48 ; retired by sale 1850 ; d. unm. at Bangor, co. Down, bur. 10th March
1853.'' His brother Richard Robert has a portrait of him in his Sandhurst uniform.
4. Richard Robert, b. 7th May 1823, at Brussels. Ensign 44th Foot, 12th June 1840;
Lieut. 5th November 1841 ; retired by sale 1844. Afterwards served in Royal Irish Con-
stabulary. He m., 10th November 1857, Margaret Ormsby, youngest dan. of Robert Twiss
of Cordel and Arnagraph, co. Kerry, Knockduff, co. Cork, and Parteen Birdhill, co. Tippe-
rary ; a sister of the late George Twiss. (See Burke's Landed Gentry, and Foster's Families
of Royal Descent?) They now reside at Oxmantown Mall, Parsonstown, King's Co., where
there are portraits of them both. They had issue :
(1) Edith Atkins Bowyer, b. at Castle Connell, and d. there, 3rd January 1868,
aged 9.
(2) Elizabeth Frances, b. at Castle Connell; ;//., 10th March 1883, Captain John
Edward Maxwell Pilkington, 28th Regiment, and has one dan., Eileen May, b. 7th
November 1883, and a son, Ulick Wetherall, b. 7th May, and bap. at Parsonstown,
7th June 1S98. Captain Pilkington, d. 12th July 1898 ; bur. in Birr Cemetery.
(3) May Ormsby, b. at Castle Connell ; m. 21st June 1 888, Lieut-Col. Alfred Rutt-
ledge, 14th Regiment, and has issue :
(a) John Forrest, b. 1st August 1894, at Parsonstown.
(b) Richard Theodore, b. 14th December 1897, at Woodville, Birr, King's Co.
(r) Eric Peter Knox, b. 24th August 1899, at Woodville, and bap. 21st September,
at St. Brendans, Parsonstown.
1. Eliza Ellen, b. at Ghent 19th March 1819; d. num. 26th March 1834, at Ostend,
aged 1 7."
Lieut-Colonel J. Forrest Fulton, K.H., m. secondly, 7th November 1838, at the Embassy,
Brussels, Fanny Goodrich, third dan. of John Sympson Jessopp, barrister-at-law, J. P. for Essex,
Herts, and Middlesex, D.L. for Herts, also F.S.A., of Albury Place, Cheshunt, Herts, and his
wife Eliza Bridger Goodrich, dan. of Hon. Bridger Goodrich, sometime Governor of Bermuda.
The Jessopps are a very old family, and were of great importance and wealth at Sheffield in the
sixteenth century. A younger branch settled at Thurnscoe Hall, near Doncaster, but could not
retain the place, and their surviving member established himself at Waltham Abbey, Essex, as a
solicitor. When Mr. J. S. Jessopp was called to the Bar, about 1800, his father and two uncles
were solicitors in large practice, controlling the whole of Clifford's Inn, and the firm still exists as
Jessopp and Gough of Waltham Abbey. (See family tomb in Waltham Abbey churchyard.) In
the year of his second marriage Lieut.-Col. Fulton was made a Knight of the Royal Hanoverain
Guelphic Order. He continued to reside in Belgium, where he was in friendly relations with
King Leopold, but visited England and Ireland occasionally. He was present at the marriage
a Belgian certificates. b Bangor C. R.