Hi Billie I looked at original ship log on Ancestry...and I in "my" opinion since William was on end of first page but others followed immediately AFTER him on folowing page....if NOT children then I would assume definite relatives. In other words it seems MORE then logical. The Elliott name is also found in Fermanagh. It is not a name I myself am researching but I thought I would just comment. Hope you do not mind. I also saw there were many William Elliotts on the Index to Griffiths..from 1848-1864, in Tyrone and other counties. Sue in NY In a message dated 8/18/2009 2:11:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, bjleclerc@sbcglobal.net writes: On May 14, 1853 the ship AMERICA arrived in NY carrying a William ELLIOTT with supposed family members; Lucy ELLIOTT, 18, Margaret, 15 and Charles, 20. All 4 Elliott's declared their home as Ireland. William isn't accompanied by a wife so he may have been widowed. However, nothing on the ship list confirms them to be a father-children family unit. I'm simply supposing. Not knowing their Irish county of origin has made it impossible to find any information about them, if indeed William is father to the 3 young people in his company. And not having a name for William's supposed first wife, probable mother to these 3 adult children with him, complicates my search even further. Coincidentally, on an earlier passenger page, I discovered a Joseph ELLIOTT, age 27, who gives his home country as England....perhaps a scribe's error. I don't know if there is a connection between these separate ELLIOTT entries. I've discovered that this ELLIOTT family unit spent a couple years in New York before traveling west to Iowa. While living in NY William had married a Jane B. (BURGESS- married or maiden name?) a young woman of 28, an 1839 immigrant from Ireland. After their move to Iowa I have been able to locate these Elliott's in the 1856, 1860, 1880, & 1900 Iowa Census and follow some of them and their growing families. Lucinda ELLIOTT was married to Christopher BETTS/BETZ in 1859, by a Presbyterian minister in Iowa. They were my great grandparents. Where did she live before leaving Ireland? Thank you for checking your records for connections to my Irish ELLIOTT family. Sincerely, Billie Betts Leclerc bjleclerc@sbcglobal ------------- Our community web-site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cotyroneireland ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COTYRONEIRELAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message