Hello, Last June I was in SLC and looked at the book, Ayshire, The Story of the County by John Stawhorn, Ayrshire Archaeological & Natural History Society 1975. FHL 941.42 H25j p 113 - Steam navigation had been pioneered in Scotland and among its progenitors was James Taylor who was born in Leadhill in 1758 & spent the latter years of his life from 1770 til 1825 as a mining engineer in Cummoch. The idea was taken to America by ROBERT FULTON himself of Ayrshire farming stock and developed here by Henry Bell whose Comet in 1812 began regular service on the Clyde. In the Ayrshire areas of Kilmarnock, Kilmaurs and Fenwick I did not find any Fultons in the marriages or births which would lead me to think of Robert Fulton's family. If they were from Ayrshire, it was some other area. Irene Fulton