On 7/10/2013 11:44 AM, eve@varneys.org.uk wrote: > . >> In there I have found a copy of a press release for the Defence Esates >> Annual Report in 2000. It says the report features the Fulton block at >> RAF Cosford. >> <quote> >> built in memory of Captain J D B Fulton, regarded as one of the >> founders of what became the RAF, Captain Fulton commanded one of two >> Royal Engineer Air Battalions, and was largely responsible for >> reforming them as the Royal Flying Corps in 1912. >> </quote> >> (From other documents in the file, JDBF commanded No 2 Battalion, which >> was the first 'heavier than air'[planes], Battalion - No 1 was >> balloons.) >> >> <quote> >> Fulton block was built in memory of Captain Fulton in 1938 at a cost of >> �250,000 bequeathed by Lady Fulton. >> </quote> >> >> >> So he 'does' have official-ish confirmation that the block was named >> for the man whose sword he owns. The Defence Estates seems to have been >> replaced by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (a rose by any >> other name). I'll contact them and see if they can shed any light. >> >> JDBF's parents were Frederick George Fulton, a shipowner ( name from >> CWGC entry and occupation from JBDF's entry in the Royal Military >> Academy Woolwich Register) and Jane Elizabeth (maiden name not yet >> known) who, according to the 1891 census, was a widow, born c 1848 >> Yorkshire. Jane Elizabeth died in 1910 and JDBF was her executor. Her >> probate entry shows she left �8282 10s 10d - which seems to be far >> short of the �250,000 needed to build the block so I still don't know >> what relation the Lady Fulton, who made the bequest, was to JDBF. > > > There were two women actually entitled to the name and style of Lady > Fulton; both were widows of judges, Sir James Forrest Fulton and Sir Robert > Fulton. > Sophia, the wife of Sir Forrest, Recorder of London, was a great one for > good causes, but left only �3126 in 1928 and several children to share it. > Sir Robert, an old Indian judge, left �101,775-14-2 in 1927 (and two > children) His younger widow Margaret Edith, died in 1951 and left > �18.991-18-7 even thern (and one surviving dau, apparently). > I would think Margaret E is the best candidate for Lady Fulton, though there > is no apparent close relationship. Perhaps the name attracted her, perhaps > JD was a distant cousin of her husband's. Sir Robert was Scottish born > (Edinburgh) and certainly the chances are that John Duncan Fulton's origins > are Scots, even if his birth was in California. I have niot found any will for > Frederick G so far, -possibly his assets were all in America and/or Scotland. > EVE > Author of The McLaughlin Guides for Family Historians > Secretary, Bucks Genealogical Society > Judge not least you be Judged I wonder how some of the people who judge their ancestors so harshly will themselves be judge in 100 years. Personally I believe that some of the people in charge and the things that they are doing will today will get extremely low marks by future historians.