Hello List Edna said: I have found a Birth entry on FIBIS from the Times of India transcribed 2009-08-26 Entry from Births 1890 Lloyd, son male, place Rai Barreily, 1890 August day 7,Exact entry Aug 7th at Rai Bareily (Oudh) the wife of ET Lloyd CS of a son Edition year 1890 edition date 14 Aug Can listers tell me where this place is and what the letters CS after the name means. Is there a way of finding out the name of the child born on this day, or any information about the parents. I can not get to the British Library in London The FIBIS Fibiwiki has a page Bareilly which has details. It seems to be in the same general area of India as Lucknow. http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Bareilly CS stands for Civil Service and ET Lloyd appears in the 1905 Civil List as retired on an invalid pension from 1894 http://books.google.com/books?id=3VQTAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA23 and http://books.google.com/books?id=3VQTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA549 The LDS beta website has the following details Name Ernest Guy Richard Lloyd Gender Male Baptism/Christening Date 20 Sep 1890 Baptism/Christening Place Raibaridi, Bengal, India Birth Date 07 Aug 1890 Father's Name Ernest Thomas Lloyd Mother's Name Ethel May Indexing Project (Batch) Number C39355-9 Source Film Number 512342 Reference Number v 221 p 4 Cheers Maureen (Sydney)