Fuller, Captain Adam Henry

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.

Woodfield House, County Offaly, Ireland
Coleraine, County Offaly, Ireland
Gurteen, County Tipperary, Ireland
Rockfield House, County , Ireland
Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin, Ireland