Hi there, I have never been to Burlington nor Iowa and given that I am in Germany I probably won't for quite a while. Thus my access to census documents is virtually non-existent but I did find the 1856 census very helpful. My family is the Irish Welch line from Burlington and the 1856 census said that Steven Welch was there for a year and not yet married to Mary Murry (whom I have as a Murray but I presume it's the same person). Steven (whom I have as Stephen) and Mary had a son. That son was married to a Ferrick Sabina Mary. I have as of today been unable to find anything about the Ferrick family. I was told by a rather knowledgable fellow in Burlington (John Welch - whom one should certainly try to convince to participate in your efforts since he does know a lot about my family) that the Ferricks came over from Ireland on a ship called the John Wright/Bright/Bride or so. Has anyone any knowledge of such ship or maybe even about the Ferricks themselves? One of the Ferrick sisters - Mary - married a Mc Partland ... the other Anna someone from the Northern East Coast and was never heard of again, well and Sabina married the Welch son Michael Joseph of Steven/Stephen and Mary Murr(a)y. The parents of the 3 Ferrick sisters (they also had one brother Patrick and a twin of one of them that died at sea) were Patrick Ferrick and Bridget Mary? Daly. She died in 1902 in Burlintong Sabina in 1903 in childbirth (child died too) and Patrick Ferrick died supposedly around 1949. Oh, maybe -btw - it could have been Anna who married a McPartland. The Ferricks must have been in Burlington at the latest 9 months prior to 14 Sept 1884 (the birth of the first son of Michael Joseph Welch and Sabina Ferrick.) I certainly wished there were more census transcripts online. :(. Anyway. If anyone here has ever heard of these people. Please let me know.