(1) From the berony of Fullerton in Dundonald parish, Ayrshire, in Latin de villa aucupis. Alanus de Fowlertoun who founded and endowed out of his lands a convent of Carmelite or White Friers at Irvine died c. 1280. His son, Adam de Fowlerton, had a charter of the lands of Foullartoun and Gaylis in Kyle Stewart from James the High Steward, c. 1283 (Nisbet, Plates, p. 116). A branch of the family settled in Arran, and ere said to have had from Bruce a charter of the lands of Kilmichael there in 1307 with the office of coroner. In 1329 there is record of payment of the receipts of Arran by Ade de Foulerton, and also a record of salt under his charge at Glenkill (ER , I, p. 184,201). Rankin de Fowlartoun, dominus de Corsby, appears in 1429 (Ayr, p. 83), Johannes de Foulartoun held a tenement in Glasgow, 1487 (REG., p. 454), and John Fouller or Fullarton was first minister of Sanquher after the Reformation (Fasti, II, p. 318). (2) In 1327 Robert I granted to Galfridus de Foullertoune the land of Foullertoun in the sheriffdom of Forfar (RMS., I, App. I, 79), with the office of falconer within the sheriffdom. The estate was held by the family for at least 120 years, after which they transferred themselves and their name to the lands in the parish of Meigle still called Fullerton. Stodart (p. 121) says Fullarton of Kinnaber in Angus is a branch of Fullarton of Ayrshire. David de Fowlarton was one of the assize on the merches of Woodwrae, 1388 (Bamff, p. 22), William de Foulertoune and Robert de Foulertoune witnessed transumpt of charters, 1450 (RER., I, 141), and Robert Fowlartoun de Dunovn was one of an inquest on lands of Ouchtirlowny, 1457 (RAA., II, 112). ffowlertoune 1371, ffulartone 1680, Folartoun 1447, Folertoun 1450, Fowlartoune 1532, Fulareton 1432, Fulertoun 1450, Fullarttown 1682, Fullertowne 1679; ffulertoun, Fowillertoun.

This, like MacCloy, is a sept of the clan Stuart of Bute, Fullartor. being a town in Scotland. Fullertons are numerous in Ulster, particularly in Antrim and Down. In the birth registrations for 1865, 23 are recorded (17 spelt Fullerton and 6 Fullarton) 19 of these being in Ulster; in 1890 the returns were much the same-25 births, 22 in Ulster, mostly in Antrim and Down. According to Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland the founder of the best known family of the name in this country was Nicholas Fullerton, of Drummond, Co. Derry, whose nephew Col. Adam Fullerton acquired more property in the same county. Burke's General Armory states that the first of the family in Ireland was Fergus Fullerton who came from Scotland in the reign of James I. The earliest of note was James Fullerton who first appears on the Irish scene as master of the Free School, Dublin, in 1588 where he taught James Ussher: he was one of the first Fellows of Dublin University. He later became a commissioner for the Plantation of Ulster in 1607 and died in 1631. I presume this is the same James Fullerton who got a grant of the Wardenship of Youghal College, with the lands appertaining to it, in 1603. A James Fullerton is also mentioned in a Fiant of 1593 as standing bond for a number of Roscommon men in that year.

(English) belonging to Fullarton (Scot­land): v. Fullerton.

Fullarton is a burgh and estate at Irvine in Ayrshire, to which place the family is traced in 1371. B.L.G.

Local: from the lands of Fullarton in Ayrshire. The family are descended from Godfridus Fullarton of Fullarton, temp. Robert Bruce.

Local. The town where cloth is dressed.

A location name in Ayr, Hampshire.