"Geoff Pearson" <gspearson1647@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:b3vdubFg2m9U1@mid.individual.net... > > "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? ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY. ' The undermentioned Supernumerary Lieutenants (District Officers) are .restored to the establishment. Dated 15th May, 1911: - Captain John. D. B. Fulton is seconded for service with the Air Battalion, Royal Engineers. Dated 25th April, 1911.