Hello List Leonie said: I am currently research a Rochfort family, the head of which was one Marcus (Marius?) Rochfort. I have sourced from 'Poor Relations : the making of a Eurasian community in British India, 1733, some details of his teaching posts. Marcus Gustavus Rochfort was a teacher by profession and, at various stages of his career, he taught at the Upper Military Academy, and was headmaster of the PAI, from 1829-1830... I have checked the Fibiwiki, but can find no reference to the Upper Military Academy or the PAI. Can anyone tell me what the PAI was, and perhaps also something about the Upper Military Academy. PAI stands for Parental Academic Institution, Calcutta more commonly known as the Parental Academy. The following Google Books link, which is available from the FIBIS Fibiwiki page, Calcutta, http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Calcutta is from an article in the Calcutta Review called "The Educational Establishments of Calcutta Past and Present" ,page 457 http://books.google.com/books?id=-8KgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA457 I believe the Upper Military Academy would be the Upper Orphan School which was run by the Bengal Military Orphan Society, and was for the children of Officers, mainly orphans, although there were a few boarders. I haven't come across this terminology previously however, but nothing else seems to have had Upper in its name. The FIBIS Fibiwiki has a page Orphans http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Orphans Cheers Maureen (Sydney)