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.