Sharon, In some research I did on a line in Baden, I found that a woman with four small children (youngest less than a year old) immigrated to the US. She had never been married. Records showed that she was asked to leave because she was of poor moral character having her children with two or more different fathers. Two of the fathers, her family, the town and even the government of Baden contributed money to pay her passage. She came into the port of Baltimore in the mid 1850's and married within a month of her arrival to a man who had not been on the ship with her. In that case it was lucky that she was rather notorious and there were quite a lot of records about her immigration. Nancy M.