"Charles Ellson" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 12:46:28 -0000, "Geoff Pearson" > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >>"Geoff Pearson" <[email protected]> wrote in message >>news:[email protected] >>> This chap lived in my house, here in Edinburgh, with his parents and >>> aunts, from 1897-1906, at >>> least. The Wikipedia article contains a lot of info but does anyone >>> know >>> more about him - who he married and was there a child? Did he just live >>> in >>> India or, as some suggest, he lived in London? >>> >>> I've been all over Ancestry, Scotland's People, and the internet and >>> I've >>> sent an email to the current Director of the Geological Survey of India. >>> But chums here often have a clever idea. >>> >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Heron >>> >>> Geoff >>> >>> >> >>I now have his marriage certificate - in Southampton in July 1911. His >>wife, I suspect, left with him to go back to India after this, although >>she >>seems to be on a boat to Calcutta in 1912. (Her father was at the wedding >>so they didn't elope). Their only child was born in 1915 (Margaret). >> >>I can see some voyages to India - does anyone see a trip soon after the >>wedding? >> > Nothing obvious (just using the surname) but a lot of entries have > only got an initial or just "Mr" or "Mrs" and there is a suspicious > shortage of voyages going in the direction of India. Thanks - that is what I found.