Following on I have just found the following article which may explain why Philip Crawshaw left his wife Ann Nuttall and three sons, at the time living in Blackburn. "BLACKBURN STANDARD Newspaper November 25, 1857: Serious Defalcation by a Coal Agent. We regret to announce that Mr. Philip Crawshaw agent in this town for Mr. Holden, Coal Proprietor of Southport, has absconded and that defalcations in his accounts have been discovered amounting to several hundred pounds. No trace of his whereabouts has yet been discovered." Can anyone find him immigrating to the US around this time? I've looked under BIRTWISTLE and CRAWSHAW and can't pick him up.....thought a fresh set of eyes may do the trick. Cheers and TIA, Robyn Australia