On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 17:58:34 +0100, eve@varneys.org.uk wrote: >The plot thickens. > Allegedly, JDB Fulton married Marie Carew in 1898 and had a son Denis in >1899 in Crediton Devon. > In 1901, Marie Fulton ,decsribing herself as an artist and wife of Army >Captain, is living with Denis over a greengrocers. I note that JDB Fulton was >not gazetted Lieutenant till Sptember 1901, never mind Captain. > However, in 1911, Marie is the wife of Henry Herbert Chaston, toilet and >perfumery manufacturer, living in Hapenden, allegedly married 10 years, with >children by him aged 4-8, plus Denis Fulton, 11, stepson. > There is no trace of a marriage of JDB Fulton and Marie Carew, but as she >was born in Wexford, Ireland, this could be where a marriage happened. > There is no match in the Irish (or Manx in case they stopped off half-way) indexes. > However again, Henry Herbert Chaston was divorved by his first wife, >Maud, in 1901 (case set down on the very day he returned to England from >New York. The charge was adultery with an unknown woman, striking her >with clenched fist, and deserting her in 1898. The decree nisi was in April >1901, final in October 1901. > Therefore a marriage of Henry to Marie ten years before April 1911 was not >possible, and no registration is found until 1910, when Henry Herbert >Chaston marries Marie Parry Jones (probably at a register office, no church >event found). >There is no divorce for JOHN DB Fulton or Marie Fulton. The probability is >they were not married. Otherwise, she3 was committing bigamy and would >hardly dare a high profile association with JDBH> > When Henry H Chaston died in 1937, leavibng a small estate, his widow >was Vera Isabella. Marie, allegedly dying in 1935. left no will in any of her >known names. > >So probably JDB Fulton really was unmarried in 1911 - the son Dnis may or >may not be his, but Maried Chaston would have no claim to be 'Lady Fulton', >wven by bidding up his CBE. And no access to large funds, unless she found >another man with money (at an advanced age for that sort of thing). > Is it possible that the 'Lady Fulton' concerned was the hero's aged Mother, >or an aunt, wishing to commemorate him? > >EVE