It might help if you gave us the names od the family concerned. Then I would search shipping and US immigration records. This would indicate where they came from. Sue Wood Seeking: Pyle, McClelland, McMahon, Lowther, Le Batt, Labatte, Miller, Innes , Quaife , Lake, Shipton, Nolan, McQueen, Madden, McConnell, Quilty, Swayne. Wood, Forshaw, Follitt, Wil(l)shaw, Russell, Lavender, Ross, Harvey, Enniss, Ross, Robinson, Ashcroft, Sutton