My name is Kate Parkin (née Ardeshir) and I live in the UK. My grandfather and his parents were Parsis and I am conducting research on the family history.
Ardeshir (l) and Aimai Patel
My great-grandfather was Ardeshir Dhunjibhoy Patel, born in Bombay on November 28, 1887 in what I believe is now D Ward in the Bombay Municipality. He attended the Petit Parsi orphanage and the memorial book in the British library confirms this. I urgently need either a birth record or letter confirming his birth by a competent authority. I would be most grateful if any reader could advise on where I can find birth records or logs of Parsis born in 1887 in Bombay.
Our brief family records state that Ardeshir’s father was Dhunjibhoy Ratanji Patel, and his father was Ratanji C. Patel.
I have only one photo of him with my great-grandmother, Aimai J. Dubash.
KATE PARKIN
Wimborne, U.K.
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