A little more food for thought about the subject. My gggrandparents and 6 children immigrated from Switzerland in 1843. They traveled overland to Havre, France and then 48 days at sea. They entered at New Orleans. It took 2 days for a steam vessel to navigate the Mississippi delta and reach the city. They spent 9 days on a steamship from New Oleans to St. Louis. They settled in Madison County, Illinois then moved to Galena, Illinois in about 1850. My ggrandparents moved from Galena to Wahpeton, Dubuque County in 1859 and then to Dubuque in 1877. The point of my story is that there are any number of possibilities for entry into the country and this is just one of them. Also, the possibility that they moved around after arriving. I'm sure that the family departing England had several options open to them for a port of entry. I was able to track down the ship passenger list through an online database (can't remember which one - I think Ancestry.com or Genealogy.com). Good luck. John Pfiffner