"Chris Pitt Lewis via" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > > On 06/01/2015 10:48, Geoff Pearson via wrote: >> 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 >> > > There is a death notice in the Times, 10 feb 1971 p.24: "On January 29th, > 1971, in Coonoor, Nilgiris, India, Alexander Macmillan Heron, aged 86, > late Geological Survey of India, much loved husband of Margaret and father > of Marjorie." > > > Chris Pitt Lewis > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > http://www.avast.com > Excellent - I had been onto the Times archive but nothing had come up; my searching skills must be fading. Thank you. Geoff

On Wed, 7 Jan 2015 08:46:30 -0000, "Geoff Pearson" <[email protected]> wrote: > >"Chris Pitt Lewis via" <[email protected]> wrote in message >news:[email protected] >> >> On 06/01/2015 10:48, Geoff Pearson via wrote: >>> 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 >>> >> >> There is a death notice in the Times, 10 feb 1971 p.24: "On January 29th, >> 1971, in Coonoor, Nilgiris, India, Alexander Macmillan Heron, aged 86, >> late Geological Survey of India, much loved husband of Margaret and father >> of Marjorie." >> >> >> Chris Pitt Lewis >> >> --- >> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >> http://www.avast.com >> > >Excellent - I had been onto the Times archive but nothing had come up; my >searching skills must be fading. Thank you. > Some versions used to stop at IIRC 1965 while others came to fairly recent times. That used to be the case with my council's library website access but one or other side seems to have upgraded the sub in the last year.

On 07/01/2015 23:14, Charles Ellson wrote: > Some versions used to stop at IIRC 1965 while others came to fairly > recent times. That used to be the case with my council's library > website access but one or other side seems to have upgraded the sub in > the last year. Some Scottish libraries have access to the Scotsman online archive but it only goes up to around 1950. I think the Glasgow Herald also has an online archive.