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Abraham Fuller of Violet Hill was the second son of Joseph and Lydia Fuller, born 19 August 1728. On 11 July 1748 he married Elinor Pakenham, daughter of Thomas Pakenham of Pakenham Hall (Gaddaghanstown, County Westmeath). They had four children: Lydia (20 Jan 1749 - 24 Oct 1751), Ann (14 May 1751 - 6 Nov 1752), Abraham (19 Aug 1728 - 7 Jan 1800), Joseph Thomas “Old Patch” (10 May 1758 - 1842).

On 24 December 1795, Abraham Fuller recorded his account of the Fuller family being robbed at Grangemore when he was a child.

“My father Joseph Fuller was robbed at Grangemore about the 4th Nov 1738 by about six men who entered the kitchen between nine and ten at night. Their faces were blackened. The servants were much alarmed. My father and mother imagined the noise made was the servants playing in the kitchen, until they entered the parlour. My father made no resistance, his arm being just out of joint by a fall a few days before. Robbers names— Francis Boyle, Peter Garry, his two brothers, a man Lacey, and Wheeler who was taken in the robbery, and was hanged at Mullingar. Richard Bust a small boy got out of the house and alarmed the tenants. He told them there were a hundred men all armed but their arms were wet and would not go off. Suite our Carpenter was cut down and when on his knees he saw Wheeler going by and struck him … under the small rib and held him fast. It was a very wet night, and the tenants being afraid of firearms the rest got off.

“One of our men, Thomas Devine, a stout man, was severely wounded. He knocked Boyle down, but Peter Garry had a musket he took out of the house, which he clubbed and struck Devine in the forehead. He lay speechless for twenty-four hours bleeding out of his mouth and ears. Dr. Frayne in time stopped the bleeding. He lived to be an old man and was taken care of by the family. Wheeler would not confess who was with him, though put in a hot griddle and other punishments but all in vain. Peter Garry was taken in Dublin selling a gold dessert spoon, of which my mother had a case. [My son the] counsellor has one of them which was chopped in the hurry. These spoons have been in my mothers family for a long time. Garry confessed when taken and word sent to my father several belongings to the gang were taken some hanged and transported but… was in the robber. Boyle and the two young Garrys quitted the kingdom and never returned. Peter Garry was paid and on turning evidence. He was very civil in the house, and but for him it was thought murder would [have] been committed. He was made County Keeper and had £20 a year, my father did all in his power to save him.

“The plate was taken, but few spoons one of the servant maids put into the ash hole and a silver cup Wheeler had in a bolster (he shook the feathers out) on his back. I was robbed of my little silver buckles and my wig. I was at the time about ten years old. They got some cash my mother had, it was thought two or three hundred, besides a great many valuable curiosities. There were a great many articles dropped by the robbers in their flight, which was found by the county people and kept by them. Years after it was found out.”

Abraham Fuller of Violet Hill died at seven in the morning on 7 January 1800, and was buried at Kilmanaghan (County Offaly).

Abraham Fuller was born in 1753, the eldest son of Elinor (Pakenham) Fuller and Abraham Fuller of Violet Hill. As an adult he became a Barrister at Law, and on 7 Aug 1776 he married Catharine Williams, daughter of Adam Williams, Attorney of Bride Street , Dublin, and also of Williamstown, Edenderry, County Kildare. They had two sons and six daughters: Abraham (1777 - 1838), Martha, Adam (28 Feb 1782 - 15 June 1858), Lydia, Ann, Catherine. Their three youngest daughters all died very young, and were closely followed on 20 May 1783 by their mother Catharine Fuller. Abraham Fuller died 2 May 1842.

Abraham Andrew Fuller was the son of Abraham Fuller (1777-1838) and his second wife Frances Anna Armstrong. He served as an Officer in the 15th Regiment in Malta, where he died in the year 1859.

Abraham Augustus Fuller, the eldest son of Lizzy and Captain Adam Henry Fuller, was born 13 July 1846. He married Anna Maria, daughter of George Hearn of Merton, Sanford. They had no children. Anna Maria Fuller died in March 1905 at Woodfield House. He died 7 June 1919 at Frascati, Blackrock, County Dublin. Both buried at Mount Jerome Cemetery

Reverend Abraham Stritch Fuller, the third son of Maria Blanch and Adam Fuller was born 20 November 1826. As an adult he lived at Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin, where his brother visited him in 1866 and promptly died of typhoid fever. He lived at 24 Leeson Park, Dublin, where his niece Maria Blanch Fuller died on 10 April 1903.

Adam Fuller of Woodfield, was born 28 February 1782, the second son of Abraham and Catharine Fuller. During his life he became Justice of the Peace and married twice. His first wife was Miss Stokes of Kerry, and they had one daughter Ann, who later married a solicitor in Tullamore. Adam Fuller's married his second wife, Maria Blanch Stritch, daughter of Dr Matthew Stritch of Dublin, at St. Peter’s Church Dublin on 4 December 1817. They had three sons: Joseph Thomas Fuller (b 7 Sep 1818), Captain Adam Henry Fuller (b 24 Oct 1822), and Reverend Abraham Stritch Fuller (b 20 Nov 1826).

Their eldest son Joseph, who was very wild and heavily contributed to the financial troubles of the family, was sent to live in America. In order to generate income, Woodfield House was let out in 1851, and Adam and Maria Blanch Fuller moved to a house in Sandymount, County Dublin. Adam Fuller, Justice of the Peace died on 15 June 1858 at the age of 76.

Adam Henry Fuller is the second son and fifth child of Lizzy Hyland and Captain Adam Henry Fuller. He was born after his fathers death, on 14 March 1866. Adam studied at Trinity College Dublin and became a Doctor of Medicine He married Marcelina Dolores Caballero, and they had one son, Raphael Richard Joseph Fuller who was born 7 February 1894 is Gaspar. Shortly after the birth of his son, Adam Henry Fuller MD died in 1898. Raphael Richard Joseph Fuller later married Esperanza Viscay and they had one daughter, Esperanza Alice Fuller, born 8 June 1928 in Paraguay. Raphael Richard Joseph Fuller served in New York as the consul for Paraguay. He died in Paraguay in 1941.

Alice Esperanza Fuller, daughter of Raphael Fuller, was born in Paraguay in 1928.

Ann Gee was the daughter of John Gee of Gurteen Castle. She married Abraham Fuller of Kinnegad and had seven children: Joseph (b 1698), Abraham, John, Joshua, Elizabeth, Sarah, and Mary.

There is a Fuller family legend about Ann Gee. It claims that she had married a man called Unthank, that she had drawn up a lease changing the life interest she had in the Gurteen lands into a permanent lease: she hurried with the document to Gurteen Castle, where her father lay dying, but he was dead when she arrived. She took up his dead hand and made it go through the motions of signing the lease. This woman’s ghost is supposed to appear to members of the Fuller family before their death.