Many an immigrant had there surname altered.which might be the case here.Do not ask for more information because I do not have any more to go on. Two brothers arrived in Pittsburg,Pennsylvania.from Alsace Lorraine. I have a Bendot famiy in Portsea and Southsea on the 1881 census.for Hampshire,England.I can not connect the "dots" I talked to a living relative in the USA.Both brothers were from Alsace Lorraine.