topFULTON / BYRNE
G= Great; e.g. 4G = great-great-great great grandparents. ‘ ? ‘ = either ‘unknown’ OR ‘probably’.
@@ indicates break between paternal line (FULTON) & maternal line (BYRNE)
Major sources only cited here. Much use of NSW BDM, Latter Day Saints, Archives Office (AO) etc.
Mary Teresa Krone (1932-2017 ), Joseph Thomas Fulton (1934- ), Anne Margaret Hill (1936-1991), Francis Xavier Fulton (1938-2002)
pts : Francis Benedict Jeffreys FULTON (1903,Randwick – 1976,Kogarah) Christina Sylvia BYRNE (1900,Bungendore-1992,Strathfield) Australia : 2
gpts : Thomas Benedict FULTON (1869,Bournemouth-1915,Randwick) Mary Margaret WHYTE (1874,Newcastle – 1940,Waverley) / @@ Patrick Joseph BYRNE (1857,Kennys Point – 1915,Bungendore) Ellen Gertrude HANNAN (1863,Breadalbane – 1948,Chatswood. ) England : 1 Australia : 3
Ggpts ( Great gpts) : John Jeffreys FULTON (1825,India-1886,Bournemouth) Emily Selina WOODWARD (1834,Calicut,India-1922,Bath) William Henry WHYTE (1847/9,Newcastle-1901,Newcastle) Catherine Elizabeth BOYD(Kate) (1845,Maitland-1915,Randwick) @@ Patrick BYRNE (1826,Appin-1899,Collector) Mary CAREY (1828,Sydney-1910,Collector) John HANNAN (1821,Leitrim-1891,Breadalbane) Ellen KELLEHER (1834,Clare-1915,Breadalbane) India /Scotland : 1 India/England : 1 Ireland : 2 Australia : 4
GGg : John H.FULTON (1785,Markinch-1853,Bournemouth) Caroline Hurdis nee Jeffreys (? 1790s, London -1878,Innerleven) / James WOODWARD (1802,Westminster – 1850,Kamptee,India) Harriet SELWAY (?1804 India-1849,Kamptee) / William Henry WHYTE (1809,Carnmoney,Belfast – 1876,Newcastle,NSW.) Mary Anne BRUNKER nee McGREAVY (1815,Waterford – 1877,Newcastle) / James BOYD (?…. – ?18…..) Margaret GOOLEY (1824,Cashel,Tipperary – 1914,Maitland) @@ James BYRNE (1769,Annamoe,Wicklow-1849,Kennys Point) Sarah FRANKLIN (1787,Clare-?1853,Kennys Point) / John William CAREY (1799,Cork-1870,Collector) Matilda BYRNE (1801,Parramatta-1899,Collector) / ……HANNAN (17…,Leitrim-…………) ………………………. / Patrick KELLEHER (1801,Clare-1874,Macquarie Fields) Margaret McNAMARA (1802,Clare-1880, Macquarie Fields).
Scotland : 1 England/Wales : 1 England : 1 India/England : 1 Ireland : 9 Australia : 1 Unknown ( James Boyd, Mrs Hannan)
3Gg: James FULTON (? 1747,Stewarton,Ayr-1826,Dubbyside,Innerleven,Fife) Ann Hamilton (1761, ?Kilbrackmont,Ayr-1831,Innerleven) / Thomas Jeffreys (17… ? Penywern,Breconshire,Wales-…..) Anne Gunning (1772,?London-……..) / ……..WOODWARD (……-1802, ? London) Spanish lady, Elizabeth………. (17…, ? Spain-1818, London as Eliz.Crowley,following her marriage to Cornelius Crowley in 1811) / Henry Chenen SELWAY (1770,East Horrington,Somerset – 1827,East Horrington) Mary KERHART (17..,Gloucestershire – 1828,England) married,1790,Bodmin,Cornwall – why Cornwall ?) / George WHYTE (?1775,Carnmoney-18..,Ireland) Margaret Graham (? 1779,Carnmoney-18….,Ire) / James McGREAVY (1784,Roscommon-1846,Newcastle,NSW) Margaret TYNAN (? 1795,Waterford – 1865,Newcastle) / ..…….BOYD (? ……… – ………… (?)………. – …………….. / Philip GOOLEY (? 1802, Cashel – 1877 ,Maitland) Margaret RYAN (? 1802, Cashel – 18….. – ? Maitland) @@ John BYRNE ( 17…,? Annamoe-……..) Ann (Nancy) BYRNE (17… ?Annamoe – ……..) / George FRANKLIN (17…. Clare – ? …., ?England) …… / Michael CAREY (17…,Cork – ………..) ……………….. / Patrick BYRNE (?1775, ? …….., ? Wexford) Sarah BEST (aka Roberts, Reculist, Brown, Catapodi, BYRNE,SYKES) (? 1774,Bedfordshire – 1853, Spring Valley) / ……..HANNAN ( ? Leitrim -………) …………………………( ? ) / John KELLEHER (17….Clare- ?….. Mary FREESE (17….,Clare – ?………) / John McNAMARA ( 17…,Clare – ……..) Mary McNERTNEY (17…Clare-..) Scotland : 2 England/Wales : 1 England : 4 Spain : 1 Ireland : 16 Unknown : 8
TheWelsh Mediaeval Database has ‘1670’ as year of birth for Thomas JEFFREYS (with spouse ‘Gunning’) : as he married Anne Gunning in 1790, I suspect ‘1670’ should read ‘1770’ – more research required !
‘Spanish lady’ : excerpt from letter written in 1913 by my gt-grandmother, Emily Selina Fulton nee Woodward, in London, to Effie Grove in New Zealand. Effie (1890-1979) was the adopted daughter of Robert Grove & Emily Selina’s sister Caroline (1839-1913, twin to Sarah) :
‘Your dear mother … was only 10 years old when our father (Major Woodward) and mother (nee Selway) died so she knew absolutely nothing about them. Our father was in the Indian Army and saw a great deal of service. He was all through the 1stBurma War and received the Silver Medal. He was an only son, and his father died either before his birth or soon after, and his guardian was a General Browne. His mother died when he was only 16 and just starting for India to enter the Army. We know nothing more of them. His mother was Spanish – a very beautiful woman.’
4Gg : James FULTON (? …….,Ayr – ? ……. ?Markinch ) ? Janet ARMOUR (?) / Robert HAMILTON (?………….., – 1769,Kilbrackmont Agnes FOTHERINGHAM (?) / Richard JEFFREYS (….., ? Wales – ……., ………) / John GUNNING (1734,Swainswick-1798, London / Swainswick) Dorothy WARREN (1735-1813,Bath) / Henry SELWAY (1743, Somerset – 1824, London) Hannah GOULD ( 1749, Donhead St Andrew,Wiltshire – 1828,London / @@ James TYNAN (17…,Waterford-….) Mary Ann THOMPSON / WARD (? 17…, ?Waterford – ……, ? Waterford ) / William GOOLEY ( 17…,Tipperary – ….,Tipperary) Margaret ….. (17…,Tipperary- ….,Tipperary) Scotland : 4 England / Wales 1 England 4 Ireland : 4 Unknown : 51
FULTON : from material by Scots Ancestry Research Society, commissioned by ETW Fulton (1904-1999). Definite from 1780s. My supposition re 3G James’s birth(1747) is based on his reference to his age in his 28thMarch, 1820 letter to Captain Charles Anstruther : ‘…when you call to your recollection, or rather are informed that I have now (however improperly spent) survived my 73rdyear complete…’
The FULTON coat-of-arms is to be found in a stained glass window in the cloister of Downside Abbey (Benedictine monks). The conventional shield bears a foreshortened version of the FULTON arms on the RHS half, with the HAMILTON coat-of-arms on the left, with the Fulton motto ‘Parta Labore Quies’ – ‘Get the job done first; then take your rest’ below the shield). Intriguingly, the Hamilton crest shows the three cinquefoils that constitute the LIVINGSTONE coat-of-arms. Were they included on the occasion of the marriage of ancestor Sir James Hamilton of Cadzow (d.1440) to Janet, daughter of Sir Alexander Livingston of Callendar (co-regent of Scotland during the childhood of King James II of Scotland) ? The window obviously refers to ancestors James Fulton (1747-1826) and wife Ann Hamilton (1761-1831) although the family’s connection with the abbey dates only from 1868 when John Jeffreys Fulton’s eldest son, John Graeme Woodward Fulton (1853-1886, was enrolled at the monks’ school, St Gregorys’s. His brothers, Francis Norman Jeffreys (1860-1912), Edward Burton (1863-1882), William Joseph Henry (1864-1919) and my grandfather,Thomas Benedict (1869-1915), were also enrolled later. William’s great grandsons, Guy Charles Jeffreys Fulton (1972- ), Alistair Harper Mackay (1988- ) and (possibly) Andrew Ronan Harper Mackay (1990- ) were also educated there.
Francis himself became a Benedictine ( Dom Meinrad), allegedly ordained a few weeks earlier than originally intended so that he could admit his dying father into the Catholic faith and administer the Last Rites : this conflicts with the reference in ‘Rome’s Recruits : Converts to Rome’,Wm Jas Gordon-Gorman, (various editions):
‘Fulton,Major-General John Jeffreys (1826-1886), G.C.B.,of the Madras Staff Corps; Chamberlain to Pope Leo XIII’ (‘Converts to Rome’, p.111) How then converted on his deathbed ? More research required !
William’s son, NZ born John Graeme Blundell Fulton (1895-1922), was also professed as a Benedictine but died, before ordination, from leukaemia ( he had been a radiology student prior to enlistment in WWI). He and Dom Meinrad are buried in the monks’ cemetery. John Jeffreys Fulton and wife Emily Selina (nee Woodward) are buried in the small cemetery at the entrance gates to the abbey. Son Edward Burton Fulton ( 1863-1882) dead at age 19 in South Africa ( falling on his sword in a tumble from a horse ), is buried there – as also their daughter Mary Harrietta/Hamilton (1858-1925). There are detailed references to the tragic death of Edward in the Downside Review .
HAMILTON : from material by Scots Ancestry Research Societycommissioned by ETW Fulton (1904-1999). Definite back to David Hamilton ( alive in 1375 & described as ‘son and heir of David, son of Sir Walter Hamilton ).
WOODWARD – back only to James : ‘Application to join East India Company,1818 : ‘ I sware that I have searched for a Parish Register whereby to ascertain my age …none to be found…from information from my parents I was born in the parish of Westminster Mdds on 6thMarch,1802.’ His father died soon after, perhaps before James’s birth. His mother remarried, husband being Cornelius Crowley, in 1811. Cadet Papers, L/MIL/9/130/1.62-66 (British Library); The Asiatic Journal & monthly miscellany.
SELWAY – back to mid 1700s – Henry Chenen Selway (1743-1824) m. Hannah Gould,1766,Binegar,Somerset. Son Henry (1770-1827) m. Mary Kerhart, 1790, Bodmin, Cornwall. IGI. The Asiatic Journal … (various issues).
GOULD – details only for William (1720-1778)and daughter Hannah (1749-1828).
JEFFREYS : Definite back to Rhys Goch (red-haired) , Lord of Ystrad Yw (b.1070) – ‘sources’ cite four different lines before that ! One traces the lineage to Ireland in the 700s.
GUNNING : lineage back to Thomas GONNING, 1300s (GONNYNGE,1600s) – originally Cornwall, later Swainswick,Somersetshire and Cold Ashton (Torneys Court),Gloucestershire. Most notable : John GUNNING (above), Senior Surgeon Extraordinary to King George III; St George’s Hospital, London (1760-1798)
WARREN : one source has lineage back to 1stcentury A.D. ! Kings of Denmark & Sweden – most famous / notorious : Bjorn ‘Ironside’ Ragnarsson, Viking pillaging throughout Europe (8thCentury)
Elizabeth SEYMOUR – an enigma : aka ‘Elizabeth LYMEN,sister of Major John Seymour, Lieut.Gov.of Dumbarton Castle.’ Perhaps a widow at time of marriage to John ‘Devil’ Gunning.
5G : Philip HAMILTON (16..), ?Helen GEDDES / ? Richard JEFFREYS, ? ……? STEDMAN / John GUNNING ….., – 1774 Elizabeth FIDO / William GOULD (1720, Wiltshire – 1778, Wiltshire) Elizabeth SKINNER (1723, Wiltshire – 1812, Wiltshire).
WHYTE : back to late 1700s. I have contributed a sort-of biography of William Henry Whyte ( 1809-1876) to the marvellous web-site compiled by Margaret Taylor : http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mtaylor/p09brunkermcgreavy.htm (or just Google ‘Brunker McGreavy Whyte’) – extraordinary number of very interesting photos of many rellies. Very large number of references in Newcastle Morning Herald, Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, Newcastle Chronicle, Sydney Morning Herald, Empire ; ‘ Bar Dangerous – A Maritime History of Newcastle’, pp.63-64,117 ( Terry Cullen, 1986); Family Entries, births, deaths, marriages with some personalities, institutions and oddments ( B.W.Champion, 1973). NSW BDM, IGI, Govt Gazettes. I have not been able to find when he came to Australia ( probably late 1830s).
McGREAVY : Back to late 1700s. James (1784-1846) m. Margaret Tynan ( ‘c.1795-1865) in 1815. Their daughter Mary Anne first married John Brunker (three children, eldest James who became a leading figure in NSW colonial politics and one of the ‘Fathers of Federation’. As widowed Mrs Brunker she married William Henry Whyte (1809-1876). My ‘biographies’ of James, Margaret and Mary Anne on Margaret Taylor’s website ( See above). Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, Newcastle Chronicle, Newcastle Morning Herald ; Place of Banishment, pp.104,109 (Iaen McLachlan, 1988); A Nation of Rogues ? (ed. David Philips,Susanne Davies :Note the extraordinary observation by the Newcastle magistrate re the rape of their daughter Mary Anne, aged 7); Free Settler or Felon ? (Google ‘jenwilletts’ for reference to ‘Victoria Inn’ under ‘Newcastle’);‘ Push from the Bush’ (No.2, Nov.1978); ‘ Convict Families’ ( Course notes, Australian History, Uni. of New England); PPC, National Archives, Dublin; NSW BDM; IGI; Censuses, 1828,1841.
BYRNE lines : Patrick – only back to Patrick (c.1776-1808) Tried Co. Carlow, March, 1795, Age 20. 7 yrs sentence. Arr. Sydney, 11.2.1796,’Marquis Cornwallis’. Joined NSW Corps,10.4.1801 (Capt. John Macarthur’s company; Capt. Savory’s Company) AO (Archives Office) reel 5001 (#2285,Vol.2),IGI W003, AO microfiche # 623; Vol.3 #481; Vol.147, #206. See A Desperate Set of Villains (Barbara Hall, 2000 pp.49,50), Pig Bites Baby ( p148-p152 ); Branching Out (Amy Humphries, unpubl.MS, 2000).
James – almost certainly back through his and his wife’s parents to his grandparents (mid 1700s). I have compiled a ‘biography’ of sorts annotated with a large number of references ( AO, State Library, various books). I am still (2013) seeking to establish whether he was the James Byrne who acted as guide to Blaxland, Lawson & Wentworth in the first crossing of the Blue Mountains exactly two hundred years ago.
HANNAN – back to early 1800s. SeeWhere were they and What were they doing in 1872? (Myles Hannan, 2007 )
BOYD – the real hurdle : I can only go back to Catherine’s father ( her marriage certificate states ‘James’ as her father : he married Margaret Gooley – ‘Goly’ – in 1852). Otherwise, he remains a mystery …
CAREY – back to late 1700s ( John’s death certificate cites his father as ‘Michael’. John born 1799.)
KELLEHER – back to late 1700s (parents of Patrick (1801-1874) – John Kelleher, Mary Freese/Frost – and Margaret (1802-1880) – John McNamara, Mary McNertny ). Patrick and Margaret arrived on the ‘Ayrshire’ in 1841 with three children, leaving three in Ireland. These three ( incl. my great grandmother Ellen (1833-1915) were reunited with their parents when they came on the ‘Sir Edward Parry’ in 1848
I may extend these notes with reference to other family lines, so please note this is the Jan.2013 version.
Joe Fulton / 2.1.13
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