FULLARTON, John 5th of Kinnaber, Quaker ^{1 3 4 5}

   Other names for John were FULARTOUN, John of Kineber,⁶ FULERTOUN, Jhone, FULLERTON, John of Kinaber,^{7 8} FULLERTON, John of Kynnaber,² FULLERTON, John of Kinnaber ^{4 9} and FULLERTOUNE, John of Kinaber.⁴

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  General Notes:

"FULERTOUN
JHONE
JHONE FULERTOUN/
U
23/12/1623
312
10 / 58
Montrose"

from Births and Baptisms


Old Parish Registers
Montrose parish Angus
Baptisms

"December 1623

ye thirde & twetie [sic] day
Jhone fulertoun laird of Kyneber yoger Jhone fulertoun Robert keith bailzie Jhone gardin"




"1a John Fullarton, to whom his grandfather, John Fullarton of Kynnaber, his uncle, Gideon Fullarton, and his father, John Fullarton, fiar of Kynnaber, resigned the lands and barony of Kynnaber for which he had a charter under the Great Seal dated 15 March 1628, in which he is styled a son by the deceased Jean Falconer."

from The Red Book of Scotland

Note:

This source continues:

"He dsp before July of 1633, when his uncle Gideon was served heir general to his father."

This is a misunderstanding. John Fullarton was alive and twice married, certainly into the 1670s. In Scots law of that era, holding a charter meant John Fullarton possessed the legal title and ownership of the lands of Kinnaber. Because he held a direct charter for the estate, he was the Laird, even if other family members held different legal designations. His uncle Gideon being the 'heir general' to his deceased father only applied to unallocated or personal ancestral property rather than the specific estate gifted by the grandfather. The 1628 charter of the Great Seal makes it clear that, should John Fullarton die without male heirs, the estate would pass to Gideon's male heirs or any other male heirs of the line. This clause was not needed, as circumstances turned out. Later the John Fullarton who married Chrystine Stoddert was the son of John, not the son of Gideon. ^{5 6}

  Noted events in his life were:

• Received a Charter: under the Great Seal, 15 March 1628, of Kinnaber. ⁵

• Became: a Quaker, Before 1660, Kinnaber, Montrose, Angus, Scotland.

• Recantation: from Quakerism, 1676, Montrose parish, Angus, Scotland.

• Severed connection: with Quakerism, 1676, Montrose parish, Angus, Scotland.

• Embroiled: in anti-Quaker propaganda, After 1676, Montrose parish, Angus, Scotland.

John married Catherine ALLARDICE Quaker, daughter of John ALLARDICE 9th of that Ilk and Helen BURNET, in 1647.^{1 2} (Catherine ALLARDICE Quaker was born about 1622 and died by 1 March 1670 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Katherine (Allardice), who died February 29, 1670. She married, in 1647 John Fullarton, of Kinnebar near Montrose, probably son of John Fullerton of Kinnebar and Jean, daughter of Alexander Falconer of Halkerton."

from Barons of Allardice website

Note:

There was no 29 February in 1670. It was not a leap year. 1668 and 1672 were leap years.




"Catherine Allardice, m. in 1647, to John Fullerton of Kynnaber, and had issue."

from The Red Book of Scotland




"... Catherine (Allardice), who was married to John Fullerton of Kinnaber. This lady and her husband were so strongly in favour of the unostentatious principles of the Quakers, then recently introduced, that the Presbytery of Brechin, after a vast deal of communing among themselves, and private conferences with the accused, found that all hope of gaining them back to their Church was gone, and had to formally pronounce the bann of excommunication against both them and a domestic servant, 'for adhering,' in the intolerant words of the record, 'to the scandalous errours of Quaquarism.' "

from Memorials of the Angus and the Mearns




"The first mention of any settlement in these parts (Angus and The Mearns) was a meeting for worship which was early established in Kinnaber, two miles from Montrose, and maintained for several years. Its actual date of origin is uncertain; likewise its founders, but it may have been inaugurated prior to the Restoration by the Laird of Kinnaber who was a Quaker before 1660, possibly through having been influenced by Parker at Forfar or by Dewsbury on his first journey to Aberdeen in 1658. The rise of the Inner Light in Aberdeen in the Restoration decade would certainly have an influence on the Mearns where Jaffray was also well-known. As an offset to Robert Petrie of Portlethan, who was Provost of Aberdeen from 1667 to 1670, and in whose period of office the Quakers suffered severely, there was probably about then the accession of Catherine, daughter of James Allardice of that Ilk and her husband, John Fullerton of Kinnaber who became so strong in favour of Quakerism that the Presbytery of Brechin after taking all the usual steps in the effort to reclaim them, excommunicated both and their domestic staff 'for adhering to the scandalous errours of Quaquarism' and the Ministers of the Presbytery 'did inhibite their parochiners to haunt or keep company with them'. It is not improbable that a community of sympathy between the Allardices and the Barclays led to a close connection between the families later."

from The Rise Progress and Decline of the Quaker Movement in Scotland

Note:

Catherine was the daughter of John, not James, Allardice. James was born in 1620, and Catherine married in 1647. The dates point to them being siblings. ^{1 2 9}

John next married Elizabeth BURNET, daughter of Sir Thomas BURNET 13th of Leys, 1st Baronet and Jean MONCRIEFF, about 1670 or after.³ (Elizabeth BURNET was born about 1624 and died by 26 June 1680 ⁴.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Elizabeth (Burnett), married, 1st. Sir Robert Douglas of Tilliwhilly (Sasine to her, 31st May, 1666. Aberdeenshire Sasines, and Burnet v. Fraser ut supra) ; 2ndly, Fullerton of Kinnaber."

from The Family of Burnett of Leys




Fullertoune
John
26 / 6 / 1679
of Kinaber, and Elizabeth Burnet his spouse
testament testamentar & inventory
Brechin Commissary Court
CC3/3/7"

"Burnett
Elizabeth
26 / 6 / 1680
Dame, lady dowager of Tilliquhillie, and relict of John Fullerton of Kinnaber
...
Brechin Commissary Court
CC3/4/8"

from Wills and Testaments ^{3 4}