"Anne Chambers" <anne@privacy.net> wrote in message news:b4a9rcFqgvmU1@mid.individual.net... > 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 >> > An article here > http://www.thefreelibrary.com/RAF+Cosford+block+wins+military+honour%3B+The+Fulton+Block+at+RAF...-a066658803 > says that the money to build the Fulton Block at Cosford in 1939 was > 'bequeathed to the RAF by Lady Fulton' - if it's accurate, this would > indicate that she died prior to the construction of the building > > -- > Anne Chambers > South Australia > > anne dot chambers at bigpond dot com The use of Lady Fulton without a forename suggests she was the wife of someone. If it had been her own title it would be normal to give her forename cf Lady Antonia Fraser daughter of the Earl of Longford and Lady Thatcher, wife of Sir Denis Thatcher Baronet. Margaret Thatcher later became a life peer and was properly called Baroness Thatcher. For Thatcher, neither produced Lady Margaret Thatcher. So I guess Lady Fulton has to be found by finding a Sir or Lord Fulton. In my family it was always said my great-grandfather was a partner of William Morris in his cycle shop and they parted when Morris decided to build new-fangled cars. There was no truth in it, except they lived in the same street in Cowley - but the story grew because no one checked. We still have nothing to connect JDBF to a Lady Fulton or RAF Cosford.