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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.

Adam Henry Fuller, the second son of Maria Blanch and Adam Fuller JP, was born 24 October 1822. On 20 Aug 1845 he married Lizzy Hyland. They had five children; Adam Augustus (13 Jul 1846 - 7 June 1919), Maria Blanch (b. 18 Oct 1848), Eva Sophia (b. 28 Jan 1853), Lizzie Helen, and Adam Henry (14 Mar 1866 - 1898). When his parents moved to Sandymount, Dublin in 1851, Henry Fuller had leased a home for his family in Coleraine, near Tullamore. After the death of his father, Adam Fuller, Captain Adam Henry Fuller became the landlord of Gurteen. At the time Gurteen was still let out, just like Woodfield House, on a lease. In 1866, Marcus Goodbody (1810-1885) requested to buy up the remainder of this lease, and Captain Fuller agreed. After this agreement, Goodbody then requested to lease Gurteen forever, at the same £1000 down, and again Captain Fuller agreed. The night before the lease agreement was to be signed, Captain Fuller dreamt that he was standing on the top of Gurteen Castle and Ann Unthank (Ann Gee) appeared to him. She showed him a lease, of which he was able to read the first four lines, and he noticed the wording was peculiar. Anne told him that if he signed the lease, it would be at his peril, threw it over the wall, and he woke up. The next morning, without telling his wife about the dream, he went to Tullamore to sign the lease. When the document was put before him he saw that the beginning was similar to the words he had seen in his dream. Remarking on their peculiarity he was told that it was a more modern way of drawing up leases, so he signed it. When he got home he told his wife, Lizzy Fuller, about the dream and she was very angry that he had signed the lease. With the money from the lease of Gurteen, Captain Fuller bought Rockfield, and moved his family from Coleraine.

Captain Fuller then went up to his regiment in County Monaghan, where he contracted typhoid fever. After being ill for some time he went to his brother, Reverend Abraham Stritch Fuller’s house in Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin, where he died within a year of signing the lease. Lizzy Fuller continued to lived on at Rockfield where her son Adam was born just after his father’s death in 1866.

Wife of Abraham Fuller of Woodfield, Clara, King's County
Daughter of Thomas Pakenham 4th cousin of 1st Lord Longford

Elinor Pakenham was daughter of Thomas Pakenham of Pakenham Hall, Gaddaghanstown, County Westmeath. She became Elinor Fuller when she married Abraham Fuller of Violet Hill on 11 July 1748. 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). Elinor Fuller was very active in society, and would often drive up to the Court in Dublin in her yellow coach. She died at Woodfield House on the evening of 13 December 1802, and was buried with her husband at Kilmanaghan, County Offaly.

Esperanza Viscay married Raphael Gaspar Fuller, the consul for Paraguay in New York. On 8 June 1928 they had a daughter, Dolly.

Joseph Fuller, the eldest son of Ann Fuller and Abraham Fuller of Kinnegad, was born in the year 1698. He married Lydia Roberts, daughter of Isaac Roberts, and they had five children: Ann (3 Dec 1725 - 31 July 1773), John (2 Feb 1726 - 5 Jan 1772), Abraham (19 Aug 1728 - 7 Jan 1800), Joseph (19 May 1732 - 16 July 1762), and Robert (d 1762).

Joseph Thomas Fuller, eldest son of Adam and Maria Blanch Fuller, was born 7 Sep 1818. In his youth he was so wild that he was forbidden to hunt with the county pack, and insisted on keeping his own hounds at Woodfield. His father, Adam Fuller, told him he would have to sell the dogs because they were too expensive to keep. Joseph left the room, and after a short time called his father to the yard, where he had strangled all of the dogs on the railing. It was after this that Adam and Maria Blanch Fuller sent him to live in America.

Lizzie Hyland married Captain Adam Henry Fuller on 20 August 1845. They lived in Coleraine, King's County (County Offaly), and had five children: Adam Augustus Fuller (13 Jul 1846 - 7 June 1919), Maria Blanch Fuller (b. 18 Oct 1848), Eva Sophia Fuller (b. 28 Jan 1853), Lizzie Helen Fuller, and Adam Henry Fuller (14 Mar 1866 - 1898). In 1866 the family moved to Rockfield, where Adam Henry was born just after his father's death that same year.