Dear All, As well as trying to research the earlier generations of the Lisburn Fultons, I'm trying to enlarge my biographical notes of my great grandfather William Fulton. He was born at Killultagh House near Lisburn in 1810 and died at Rose Cottage in the same area in 1889 Between late 1849 and mid 1862 he was in USA and I have a notebook which gives some clues to what he did. He sailed from Liverpool around 18 Dec 1849 (perhaps on board "Fidela" bound for New York possibly with help from Tapscott,Immigration Agents of Liverpool and New York where they traded as W& J T Tapscott). He started for California on 21 May 1855 (presumably via the Oregon Trail ) and remained in the goldfields until 1862. I have had great help from Sacramento Library, County Libraries in California and Melinda Landrith a researcher whom they recommended, which has added to my information while he was in California. I don't know where he was between his arrival and the time he left for California. The clues I have are that he carried with him the address of his Frackleton cousins in Petersburg, Minard Co.Illinois, which would have been on the way to the west, and of his aunt Elizabeth nee Frackleton married to Thomas Ferris who had emigrated to Toronto,who were probably the parents of the John Ferris he wrote to there. If anyone has come across a stray William Fulton anywhere in USA or perhaps in Canada during that time, perhaps in a census or passenger list, (or from any other source) who could be this William, I would be pleased to hear about it. Trevor Fulton