"Piercefield" <Piercefield@btinternet.com> wrote in message news:mailman.1.1373375616.7307.genbrit@rootsweb.com... > On Sunday, July 7, 2013 10:57:26 PM UTC+1, Tickettyboo wrote: > >> John Duncan Bertie Fulton (1876-1915) >> 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'? > > Googling "John Duncan Fulton" gives two results - at findagrave and > salisburyinquests. > > http://www.thepeerage.com/i1312.htm#s17450 > does not give a "John Duncan Fulton" - the only "Lord Fulton" given > there is John Scott Fulton, given a Life Peerage in 1966, and there is > no record there of a wife. > > The Jane Fulton (d. 1910) given by Peter Haizelden (Tuesday, July 09, > 2013 9:23 AM) would probably have been Bertie's mother. > > Googling "Lady Fulton" gives at No. 1 "Fulton Block the worlds > oldest/largest/crapiest barrack block" > > ... and lots of mentions for a horse and for a cocker spaniel, both > carrying that name ! > I'm expecting "Bertie" to be a surname used as a forename - common in Scotland. It may indicate the maiden name of the mother or grandmother. There are lots of Bertie families. Of id Ms Fulton was unmarried, Bertie may be the surname of the father, also common.