Thank You Maureen The Info is from documents or copies of documents I have as this was my father in law, I had always said Lahore & it wasn't until I gave my DH to read his father's army record he had read it before but he noticed that it had Madras on it yet his Naturalisation papers did say Lahore & the baptism don't clarify either so we started to wonder if there anyway of proving it one way or the other Regards Janice -----Original Message----- From: india-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:india-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Maureen Evers Sent: 17 October 2010 13:43 To: india@rootsweb.com Subject: [INDIA] FW: Help Please Hello List Janice said: Can anyone help to look plus solve a mystery, I have a Frederick Llewellyn Aitkins also known as Llewellyn Frederick born 29th August 1915 I have him baptised at the (Wesleyan) Methodist Church what looks like Popham's Broadway Madras, on 19th September 1915 abode give as Lahore. Now the mystery is was he born in Madras or Lahore documents I have shown his place of birth as both so would like to know which is correct, also is Lahore in anyway in Madras or close as it seems funny I thought that they were thousands of miles apart, any help would be very much appreciated It sounds as though the family usually lived in Lahore, and visited Madras, perhaps to visit family or friends, where the baptism took place. However I think it's a guess whether the birth took place in Lahore or Madras. As Lahore was the capital of the Punjab, and probably had reasonable facilities for a birth, I would be inclined to think it was more likely the birth took place in Lahore, then the journey to Madras took place. However either is possible. Janice does not say where her information came from. If it was not from the British Library, she could try the British Library ecclesiastical records. If there is one there (I'm not sure whether Methodist baptisms would be included or not) the information might be in a slightly different form which could give a clue. Janice could try to access some Lahore newspapers for the relevant period. Perhaps the British Library may have them. They do have many microfilms of newspapers. There may be a birth announcement, usually under the heading Domestic Occurrences. The FIBIS Fibiwiki has the page Newspapers http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Newspapers For general information, see the FIBIS Fibiwiki Beginners' Guide http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Beginners%27_Guide Cheers Maureen (Sydney)