"Geoff Pearson" 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 Hi Geoff Try Google Books, you will find a number of references to him. Regards Kate Sydney, Australia