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Laurence Parsons, 2nd Earl of Rosse, Baron of Oxmantown, 5th Baronet, was born on 21 May 1758 to Sir William Parsons, 4th Baronet, and Lady Mary Clere. From 1782-1790. Laurence Parsons represented Dublin University in the Irish House of Commons. In the following years of 1791-1801, he sat as a Member of Parliament for King's County. In May 1797
Laurence Parsons married Lady Alice Lloyd, and they had five children. After the Act of Union in 1801, he sat for King's County in the British House of Commons until 1807, when he succeeded his uncle as the 2nd Earl of Rosse. He soon after became one of the Postmasters General of Ireland, in 1809. From 1809-1841 he sat in the House of Lords as an Irish Representative Peer, and served as Custos Rotulorum of King's County from 1828 until his death on the 24th of February 1841. The 2nd Earl of Rosse was succeeded by his son, William Parsons.

Sir William Parsons, 1st Baronet of Bellamont, was born around the year 1570 to James Parsons and Catherine Fenton. In 1602 he succeeded Sir Geoffrey Fenton as Surveyor General of Ireland. He was later knighted for his work as Surveyor General and was created a baronet on 10 November 1611. In 1639 he represented the county of Wicklow in Parliament and was constituted Lord-Deputy, first with Lord Dillon in 1640, and again with Sir John Borlace, Master of the Ordnance. Sir William Parsons was married to Elizabeth Lany of Dublin, who was notably the niece of Sir Geoffrey Fenton. In 1643 he was removed from government, and imprisoned on charges of treason. Sir William Parsons died at Westminster in February of 1650. His grandson, Sir William Parsons, succeeded him as 2nd Baronet of Bellamont.

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.

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 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.

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.

Maria Blanche Fuller, eldest daughter of Lizzy and Captain Adam Henry Fuller, was born 18 October 1848. She married Dalkeith Holmes Plunkett-Johnston MD at Clara Church in August 1874. They had two children, Charles Henry (1875-1900), and Constance Charlotte (13 Nov 1876 - 20 Jan 1959). Maria Blanche Plunkett-Johnston died on April 10, 1903 at her uncle Reverend Abraham Stritch Fuller’s house at 24 Leeson Park, Dublin. Her funeral was held the next morning at Mount Jerome Cemetery.

John George Dalkeith Lamb, second son of Francis William John Alexander Lamb (1874-1959) and Constance Charlotte Plunkett-Johnston (1876-1959), was born 19 August 1919 at Frascati, Blackrock, County Dublin. On 11 November 1946 he graduated from Trinity College Dublin with his Bachelors in Agricultural Science. On 16 January 1950 he graduated from Trinity College Dublin with his PhD in General Agriculture. Doctor Keith Lamb married Helen Margaret Tobias (1917-2011) on 10 May 1952, at Saint Michan's Church, Dublin. They had one son, Henry Francis Lamb. After the death of his brother Canon Adam Lamb on 19 June 1989, Helen and Keith Lamb moved to Woodfield House, Clara, County Offaly. Keith Lamb died in January 2011, and was buried 1 Feb 2011 at Saint Brigid's Church, Clara, County Offaly.