I guess you have found this, which suggests he was in Liverpool in August 1844. http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx? type=turn&entity=WI.EmigrInstr.p0008&isize=M Judy On 10 Dec 2006, at 09:19, John Williams wrote: > I have used the Ancestry immigration lists looking for some members > of the Gorst family from that went to the USA. and have found some > of them. > > However I was unable to find the head of the family, one Robert > Gorst (or his wife Martha), who was born 1796 Northwich and died in > Mazomanie, Dane Co. USA 1877. He was said to have gone there to > establish the British Temperance Emigration Society in 1846. Others > of the family, who may have gone independently, have been located, > but not Robert. He married 1815 Martha Brown (b. 1799 Liverpool). > > Their children were Sara (1816 married William Hughes and probably > stayed behind), Thomas (1818, left on "Finland" 1846 with wife and > child), Mary (1821, left 1845 on "Petersburgh" with husband David > Harrop), Charles (1824 left with Mary and David), Fannie (1828 died > in USA as Fannie Reeve, so obviously went, though not found), John > (1826, left with David and Mary) > > I wonder if anyone with access to the 1841 and 1851 census records > could please check if he/they appears thereon, which might give me > some clues. Details or copies of any finds on the census records > would be appreciated. > > Any help appreciated > > John (in hot, sweaty, drought affected, bushfire ravaged, but > otherwise o.k. Australia) > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BIRKENHEAD- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message