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Abraham Fuller was born in Amsterdam in the year 1622, and was the second son of Thomas Fuller. He became a merchant, and in 1647 married Mary Warren, daughter of Joshua Warren of Colechester. In 1651, they moved to Ireland, where they lived with their five sons and four daughters.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

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.

Francis Adam Johnston Lamb, eldest son of Francis William John Alexander Lamb (1874-1959) and Constance Charlotte Plunkett-Johnston (1876-1959), was born 29 May 1905 in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales. He inherrited Woodfield House, Clara Offaly, after the death of his parents in January of 1959. Canon Adam Lamb died 19 June 1989.

Lizzie Helen Fuller was the third daughter of Lizzy Hyland and Captain Adam Henry Fuller, was born between the years of 1853 and 1866.