Clan Fulton

No. COSCA's clan directory has no Fulton record and the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs lists no Fulton chief. Electric Scotland's Scottish Nation describes Fulton as a surname rather than a clan.

Fulton Tower, a scheduled monument (SM7033), stands at Bedrule in the Scottish Borders, on former lands called Fulton. Whether the surname comes from those lands is not settled: Electric Scotland's Scottish Nation instead calls Fulton "evidently a contraction of Fullarton".

The Ragman Roll of 1296, as printed by the Bannatyne Club in 1834, records four bearers rendering homage to Edward I: "Fulton (Foulton), Henry de (del counte de Lanark)", "Nicol de (del counte de Lanark)", "Aleyn fiz Thomas de (del counte de Lanark)" and "Thomas de (vicaire del Eglife de Irnnewyk, del counte de Edeneburgh)". None of the four is placed in Roxburghshire.

Electric Scotland's Scottish Nation calls Fulton "evidently a contraction of Fullarton", but the two names are not demonstrably one family. The 1307 charter of Robert the Bruce granting the lands of Kilmichael with the hereditary office of coroner of Arran was made to Fergus Fullarton, and the name Fulton does not appear in that account.

George Fulton (1752-1831) was an eminent teacher of grammar and elocution and the author of a Pronouncing Dictionary. John Fulton (1800-1853), born at Fenwick in Ayrshire and a cobbler by trade like his father, built an orrery - a working model of the solar system - over nearly ten years, finishing it in 1833; the Philosophical Society of Kilmarnock bought it and exhibited it in towns around Scotland and England, and his skill later took him to London, to a firm that produced scientific instruments for the King, William IV.