This section has a small sample of family trees. Joe has many very large trees that will soon be an enormous grove replanted here. You’ll love them. At the end is a list of burial locations written by Joe if you have the chance to visit cemeteries of interest.
Joe Fulton
Cemeteries where my siblings & some forebears are buried. Females are customarily buried under their married name at time of death. I have italicised maiden name & other names ( previous marriage / de facto ) where appropriate. ( JTF / Nov.2019)
Legend : ACI : Australian Cem’s Index b : Billion graves f : find a grave p photo sg : same grave
Siblings :
Mary Teresa Kronenee Fulton (1932-2017) Waverley Cemetery, Bronte, Sect.15 6516 Anne Margaret Hill nee Fulton (1936-1991) Macquarie Park Cem., RC Block 19 0115 (f) Francis Xavier Fulton (1938-2002) Hall Cemetery, ACT. 1-1-0035 (f, p. ) (b.3p)
Parents : Francis Benedict Jeffreys Fulton (1903-1976) Woronora Cemetery, Sutherland 1703 RCL 3 Christina Sylvia Fulton nee Byrne (1900-1992) Woronora Cemetery, Sutherland 1703 RCL 3 (sg)
Grandparents Thomas Benedict Fulton ( 1869-1915 ) Waverley Cemetery Mary Margaret Fulton nee Whyte ( 1872-1941) Waverley Cemetery Patrick Joseph Byrne (1857-1915 ) Bungendore Cemetery 167438987 Ellen Gertrude Byrne nee Hannan (1863-1948) Macquarie Park, Lot 24, Section W, Row 2 (f)
Great grandparents John Jeffreys Fulton (1825-1886) Churchyard,entrance Downside Abbey, Stratton on the Fosse, Emily Selina Fulton nee Woodward ( 1834-1922 ) (sg) William Henry Whyte ( 1849-1901) Sandgate Cemetery, Newcastle Catherine Elizabeth Whyte nee Boyd (1845-1915) ? probably Waverley Patrick Byrne ( 1826-1889 ) Collector Cemetery ACI (p) Mary Ann Byrne nee Carey ( 1828-1910 ) Collector Cemetery ACI (p) John Hannan (c.1820-1891) St Brigid’s churchyard, Breadalbane (p – ElizabethClingan,Facebook) Ellen Hannan nee Kelleher ( 1833-1915 ) (sg)
2G grandparents JohnH.Fulton ( 1785-1853) ? Caroline Fulton Hurdis, nee Jeffreys (1797-1878) ? James Woodward ( 1802-1850 ) Kamthi (Kamptee / Camp T), India Harriet Woodward nee Selway ( 1804-1849 ) (sg) William Henry Whyte (1809-1876) Christ Church Cathedral, Ncstle (f,p) 51712054 ACI (p) 10260326 Mary Anne Whyte Brunker nee McGreavy (f.p ) (sg) (Plot 65) 51711992 AC! (p) 10260327 James Boyd ( – ) ? Margaret Boyd nee Gooley ( 1824-1914 ) Campbells Hill, Maitland RC C8 Centre 17 James Byrne (1769-1849) Ryansvale, Springfield nr Goulburn Sarah Byrne nee Franklin Ryanvale, Springfield nr Goulburn John Carey ( 1799-1870) Collector Cemetery ACI (p) Matilda Carey nee Byrne (1800-1899) Collector Cemetery Unknown Hannan & wife – probably Sweetwood, Killarga, County Leitrim. Ire. Patrick Kelleher ( 1801-1874) Liverpool Margaret Kelleher nee McNamara (1802-1880) Liverpool.
Continued on p.2
3G grandparents James Fulton (1747-1826) Scoonie Cemetery, Leven, Fife Ann Fulton nee Hamilton ( 1761-1831) (sg) Thomas Jeffreys ( – ) ? probably in London (perhaps in vicinity of Percy St ) Anne Jeffreys nee Gunning (1773- ) ? probably in London ………..Woodward ( – c.1802 ) ? probably in London ( in vicinity of Westminster ) Elizabeth Woodward nee ………, Crowley ( – ) buried as wife of Cornelius Crowley London ? Henry Chenen Selway ( 1770-1827) ? probably in London Mary Selway nee Kerhart ( 1773-1828 ) ? probably in London George Whyte (c.1775- ) ? probably in Carnmoney, Belfast, Co.Antrim Margaret Whyte nee Greyhame (c.1779- ) ? probably in Carnmoney, Belfast, Co.Antrim James McGreavy (c.1784-1846) Christ Church Cathedral, NE corner (plot 66 ) 178444054 Margaret McGreavy nee Tynan ( c.1795-1865) ( sg ) 178444055 Phillip Gooley ( c.1800-1877 ) ? probably close to Maitland, NSW Margaret Gooley nee Ryan ( c.1804-1856 ) ? probably close to Maitland, NSW John Byrne ( – ) ? probably in Annamoe, Co.Wicklow Ann Byrne nee Byrne ( – ) ? probably in Annamoe, Co.Wicklow George Franklin ( – ) ? probably Co.Clare, possibly Lancaster, England. ……………… Franklin nee ………….. ( – ) ? probably Lancaster, England. Michael Carey ( – ) ? probably Co.Cork ……………….. Carey nee …………………. ? probably Co.Cork Patrick Byrne ( c.1776-1808) St John’s, Parramatta Sarah Sykes (c.1775-1853) nee Best,Roberts,Reculist,Catapodi,Brown, Byrne. Spring Valley Cemetery Leitrim Hannans ? probably near Upper, Middle or Lower Sweetwood John Kelleher ( – ) ? probably Co.Limerick Mary Kelleher nee Freese ( – ) ? probably Co.Limerick John McNamara ( – ) ? probably Co.Clare Mary McNamara nee McNertny ( – ) ? probably Co.Clare
Please let me know ( joseph.thomas.3441@gmail.com) if you locate details for any of the unknowns listed above. Thanks … Joe
Patrick James Coady (Descendant of Sarah Best)
The following poems are from the pen of Patrick Coady in his anthology Words (Dominic Press, 1994: ISBN 0 646 21445 4)
Patrick James Coady (1928-1999) < Cyril Coady < Matilda Carey < John Carey < John Carey, Matilda Byrne < Michael Carey, …………., Patrick Byrne, Sarah Best. Patrick m. Pauline Kennedy (sister of Fr Bill Kennedy ) and cousin of my Kennedy cousins ( Molly, Kath, Nell, Callista, Gerard) – JTF. Patrick has won many literary rewards, was President of the Poetry Society of Australia in the 1960s and was a member of the group which produced the first issues of Quadrant. He has also written many short stories, radio plays, essays and literary criticism.
Searching for Sarah – 23 October, 1983
Sarah Best, born c,1774. Sentenced at the Old Bailey, 6 Dec., 1797, to seven years’ transportation for theft of a counterpane. Died 28 October, 1853. Buried at Spring Valley, NSW. Great-great-great grandmother of Patrick Coady.
The sun, a timid stranger staring through grey clouds,
barely warms my back as I walk from The Strand to Clerkenwell
between the faded faces of brown old buildings
which dribble the dust of past upon my shoulders.
Webs of scaffolding are glued upon Old Bailey bricks
where weekend workmen are blasting old bricks to dust,
Flaunting a tourist map as badge of ignorance
I go searching among these foreign streets for a mother’s home,
And find the place at last. The indictment was carefully worded :
the street, the number, even the building’s name was nicely noted.
It is such a little street, Rosomon Street, just one block long,
even its existence lost, except for a blur in London A to Z.
Hawkers about their Sunday bargains, wave inviting hands,
While cockney ladies screech above the barrows, saving 20p.
I try to take a photograph, but the sun’s an enemy to the lens
so the only picture kept is a dim print upon the memory
The wind is a cold companion across the Canberra plains,
awakening sleeping scraps of frost from coming evening,
whipping wounds from ice upon our faces where we come seeking,
seeing brown grass laid out upon the vacant paddocks
stretching to a far distance of hills, speckled now with snow.
Wandering from grave to grave, we are looking for your name
In an empty churchyard, beside an empty church.
The priest who served its altar died just a week ago,
leaving three goats, now tethered to a tree beside its door,
bleating while they watch a road where no one comes.
We walk across the unkempt grass, remnants of the dead beneath our feet,
until we find the stone, a plaque of marble buried in the thistles,
set up and paid for by other closer sons. I see your name;
it’s shadowed by late sun upon a rock, with a call to pray for you.
Thistles stab blood upon our flesh when we kneel to say the prayer,
bowing our heads, continents away from Clerkenwell.
“other closer sons” : Sarah’s descendants, Adrian, Neil, Eric & Geoff (Bro.Coman) Sykes exhumed the remains of Sarah & William from the much degraded Ryansvale cemetery for re-internment in the Spring Valley cemetery.
Great-gt-gt-gt granddaughter (very fittingly, another Sarah – Sarah Fulton ) very kindly went searching for Rosomon St in her very generous quest for a few photos for a family reunion in the 1990s. One such photo shows the current spelling as ‘Rosoman St’ – Borough of Finsbury. EC1
The Collector cemetery has quite a number of graves of direct ancestors & close relatives ( Byrne, Carey, Reardon),the subject of another of Patrick Coady’s poems :
Collector Cemetery – Late Winter
Old afternoon surrounds us with threat of coming frost:
We are foraging for family names on fallen blocks of stone.
Weedhigh, the place is overgrown and we are careful of our feet,
thinking of snakes waking early from their winter’s sleep,
leaving the dead’s cold company to slough among the living.
An old woman, cardiganned and gloved against the cold,
flutters about us with eyes as beggars for casual talk,
(Nodding, we pass, looking for chisel marks which spell our name).
Starved of speech and company, she claims our caring,
making herself our guide and is a shadow to our seeking.
‘That’s a bushranger’s grave’, she tells us. ‘A priest lies there;
a trooper’s buried here, murdered a hundred years ago.
All, poor souls, carried here from the church across the road’.
A little mist hovers about its spires as she pours out words
which move like fingers in the evening, begging sympathy.
Slyly, she guides us through the monuments of other dead
and finds, by chance it seems, the newer mound of dirt
that is her husband’s grave, a few months buried;
and talks of lost family, of children gone, of loneliness,
so that, compelled to hear, we’ll weep and pray a little while with her.
Walking among the weeds which hide the unknown dead,
we find at last three stones which are the shards of family,
pieces of past dropped like debris out of memory;
and she, beside us, needs a sharing. We throw her words, mites
donated to rattle in the poor-box of her solitude.
And then our talk is finished. Having exacted her tithe,
the given words of sorrow, she smiles and bobs at us,
tells of further family graves, of further destinations
where perhaps dead fathers lie, and watching the death of day
waves at our leaving, satisfied that we, a moment known, have paid with company.
‘we find at last three stones ….’ Actually, there are a dozen or more that betoken deceased ‘shards of family’.
‘of further destinations’ : In this region, south & south-west of Goulburn, seek out Ryansvale, Spring Valley, Gunning, Yass & Goulburn itself for the graves of many more of those who share our Byrne-related DNA. Elizabeth Clingan has some marvellous photos of our Hannan-inhabited-in-repose Breadalbane churchyard.
May they all rest in peace.
benefaction.home.blog 