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From: "Becky Horne" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] Commonwealth Graves/Delville Woods
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 00:13:37 +0200
References: <C7545BE6-C3BB-11D7-BF18-000393766978@alphalink.com.au>


Hello Andrew

There are 409 FULTON entries in the SA Archives.
You can search NAAIRS at www.national.archives.gov.za
Here is a lead for you.

DEPOT KAB
SOURCE PIO
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 197
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 12098E
PART 1
DESCRIPTION IMMIGRATION PAPERS. MR. R FULTON.
STARTING 1937
ENDING 1937

Best wishes
Becky
Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Researching: HENWICK; HILL; HORN(E); MEREDITH; DEYZEL; LARSEN; WILSON;
LYNAR; HENNING; STERLEY; THECK; BEST; BRAUN, GREENER; GLANVILLE
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Rodger <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 3:02 AM
Subject: Re: [ZA] Commonwealth Graves/Delville Woods


> Hi, Sarah,
>
> Yes, that is the Fulton I was looking for, thanks very much. I don't
> know why I was unable to find it using the CWGC's search engine, because
> when another lister gave me this information, my wife said "Oh, yes, we
> know all about that" and produced from her files the very entry in the
> CWGC's register that I had previously printed out and forgotten all
> about . . .
>
> Advancing age, I guess!
>
> I had also joined Rootsweb's FULTON List, but unsubscribed when I was
> away from home last year and haven't re-subscribed because its
> membership was 99% American and two-thirds of those who were researching
> UK connections were of Northern Irish origins -- and my enquiries about
> FULTONS from the Borders area in Scotland (Aytoun, Eyemouth, Coldingham)
> and East Lothian (Haddington) had got no results. As the above FULTON's
> father was the only member of the family ever to migrate to South
> Africa, I am not likely to find anything about the family in this List
> either.
>
> However, this FULTON's mother would be of interest. Her name was Martha
> Frances SMITH [gloom: how to you research a SMITH? :-( ] and from a
> picture we have of her she was clearly a person of colour, though
> exactly what sort of colour is not certain from the old sepia-toned
> photograph. The names ALLISON and MAGNUS also appear on the family
> plot's tombstones in Maitland Cemetery, and it is very frustrating not
> to know what the relationship between them is. Smith is of course even
> worse that FULTON to research (FULTON is a very common name indeed in
> Scotland), and no ALLISONS I have encountered anywhere else have any
> connection to this lot. Charlie's third given name, and the presence of
> other family given names in connection with the ALLISONs in the plot,
> also show that the connection must be close. I have seen it suggested
> that the SMITH family might have been of SAINT (i.e. from St Helena)
> origins.
>
> On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 05:54 PM, Sarah wrote:
>
> >
> > And Andrew is this perhaps the Charles Fulton you were looking for?
> > In Memory of CHARLES WILLIAM ALLISON
> > FULTON Ship's Cook Mercantile
> > Marine who died on Thursday 27
> > June 1918 . Age 18 . Additional Information:
> > Son of William Robert and Martha Frances Fulton, of 46, Keerom St., Cape
> > Town, South Africa. Born at Cape Town.
> > Cemetery: TOWER HILL MEMORIALLondon, United Kingdom
> >
> Andrew Rodger
>
>
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