Reference: Thomas Bigley Fulton web pages on some of the Belmont Co, Ohio Fultons that is located at: http://users.1st.net/fultontb/ Select "TOC" button Select Genealogy Stuff - persons Dear Tom, I was looking over your generation charts on your web pages (I really enjoy them). You have your earliest ancestors listed as born in Co Tyrone, Ireland. Were they from the Six Mile Cross, Ireland area ? The Fulton Family Newsletter 1987 page 64-65 had information submitted by Clyde J. Fulton of Brewster, Ohio. He describes the William Fulton and Jane McLaren family from Six Mile Crosse, Ireland. He lists their three children as William, Charles, and a daughter, name unknown, who went to Austrlia and of whom all trace is lost. By the way, Sixmilecross looks to be about 20 miles south east of the Ulster American Folk park that the Fulton Reunion attendees visited in 1995. By accident we met a "Fulton" in the park during our visit. Seems our group has a knack for encounters that can only be explained by serendipity. I noticed that you had a family William Fulton b Ireland (refn 0132) and wife unknown McLaren. You list their children as William, Nancy, Robert, Isabel, Mary, Charles. What was the source of your information for that family unit ? It sounds like your William Fulton/unknown McLaren is the same as the one in the Fulton Family Newsletter. In the book the "Genealogy of the Fulton Family being Descendants of John Fulton born in Scotland 1713" by Hugh Ramsey Fulton, Lancaster,PA, publ. 1900, on pages 216-217, he includes information provided to him by James McFarland Fulton in the late 1800s on a branch of Fultons not related to Hugh Ramsey Fulton's lines. "James McFarland Fulton: Residence and post-office, 170 Arch Street, Allegheny City, Pa. Occupation, Minister. Birth-place and date of birth, Belmont County, Ohio, August 31, 1849. Attended Westminster College and Allegheny Theological Seminary. Married Mary Hay Shafer. Children, Charles Shafer Fulton, and Alexander Harper Fulton. Father's name, Charles Fulton. Mother's Maiden name, Jane Brown. Grandfather's names, Wm. Fulton. Grandmother's maiden name, Jane McClarren. Nationality, Scotch-Irish. Forefathers emigrated from Ireland, Six Mile Cross. First landed in America at Quebec. First settled at Belmont County, Ohio. Belong to United Presbyterian Church." Isn't it interesting that James McFarland Fulton's ancestors' port of entry was Canada and then they settled in Ohio. I have read that before that even though families were planning to settle in the U.S., they came through Canada - perhaps overseas passage was less expensive to those ports or water transportation in North America was easier to gain access to the mid-west. Do you have more information of the earliest origins of your Fultons ? Thanks, Roberta R. (Fulton) Hirth Harriman, New York 10926 Fulton web page at: http://www.frontiernet.net/~elisa96/hirth/fulton.htm