Alice, it is possible that your ancestor never was in Liverpool... My great grandfather VICKERY, who emigrated from Cork in 1850 and returned to visit almost 30 years later, wrote about how would-be passengers were rowed out into the harbor to board ships as they came down the chanel between England and Ireland. Since the ship did not put into port, those passengers would have been listed as boarding from Liverpool, the previous port. For many people it was much quicker and easier to do it that way! Barbara Rice Lafayette IN