"Graeme Wall" <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:5fwCt.34044$2z3.8730@fx28.fr7... > On 08/07/2013 10:09, Geoff Pearson wrote: >> >> "Tickettyboo" <tickettyboo@mail2oops.com> wrote in message >> news:b3u6i6F8d6uU1@mid.individual.net... >>> I am way out of my usual area here <I have a long line of Ag Labs and >>> Anchor Smiths and haven't ever needed to venture up the 'posh end'> >>> >>> Trying to help a friend who is researching the history of a previous >>> owner of a military sword, one John Duncan Bertie Fulton (1876-1915) >>> In amongst the masses of paperwork he has collected about this man's >>> career etc is confirmation from The Central Chancery if the Orders of >>> Knighthood saying that, in 1914, he was amongst those "To be Ordinary >>> Members of the Military Division of the Third Class, or Companions, of >>> the Most Honourable Order of the Bath". >>> >>> Okay, so that is confirmed, but would this entitle his wife/widow to >>> style herself as 'Lady Fulton'? >>> >>> I can't find a record of this man marrying but various articles on the >>> net indicate that the Fulton Block, in RAF Cosford was built c 1938 >>> and named in his memory. The funding of £250,000 was said to come from >>> his widow, Lady Fulton. I haven't yet found a marriage for him and >>> there was no mention of a widow on the CWGC site, nor in a four page >>> obit about him in 'The Aeroplane' vol IX, no 20, dated 17th November >>> 1915, so its just not adding up at the moment. >>> >>> Supplementary question - His probate record says Administration (with >>> Will limited) to an attorney. Am I correct in thinking that the >>> 'limited' relates to the Administration (perhaps not all of the estate >>> was clear to go into probate and they allowed 'some' of his effects to >>> be adminstered) , and not a comment about the actual will? I am hoping >>> that a will may shed some light on whether or not he married. >>> >>> -- >>> Tickettyboo >>> >> >> In the 1911 census he is shown as "single" aged 34. Might there be two >> John Fultons? > > There's a John D Fulton married in 1910 to either Alice C Harris or May > Mortimer in Fulham. > > I believe he was a Lt-Colonel in the RFA so his wife may have been styled > Lady as a courtesy title. > > Have you tried contacting RAF Cosford? > > -- > Graeme Wall > This account not read, substitute trains for rail. > Railway Miscellany at <http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail> >From the London Gazette 1915 Assistant Directors- Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) John D. B. Fulton/C.B., Royal Artillery (since deceased), from Chief Inspector, Aeronautical Inspection Department, and to retain his temporary rank whilst so employed, vice temporary Colonel D. S. Maclnnes, D.S.O. Dated 31st October, 1915