Hello, I'd like to repost my interest in learning more about the arrival in the USA of my gr-gr-grandparents, William and Eliza HANNAH. The couple and their 2 baby daughters reportedly arrived in MA, or in the U.S. in August 1857.* In 1857, William was ~28 and Eliza was ~20. This week I posted a query on the Lanark List, and received some responses. With a few more details than I had the last time I posted (last year?), I'd like to summarize the family as of knowledge (or lack thereof) now: In 1854 (Dec.) William HANNAH and Eliza RITCHIE married in Glasgow, Scotland.** In 1856, they had a daughter, Mary Anna, and in 1857, they had a daughter, Elizabeth, both in Glasgow. In 1857, they migrated to the U.S. (Elizabeth told everyone she arrived at Age 3 mos., which makes the arrival, Aug. 1857.) In 1860 Census, William and Eliza HANNAH lived in Billerica, MA, and their children are Elizabeth, 3, and William, 10 months ! (Mary Anna, I'm told, died as a young child. But, I was told this morning her death was not recorded in MA. **) In 1870 Census, William and Eliza lived in Malden, and the children were William, 10, John, 9, and Isabella, 8. In 1880 Census, William and Eliza lived in Everett, and the children were John, 19, Isabella, 18, and George, 9. William and Eliza died in Everett in 1890 and 1895, and thus wouldn't have appeared in the 1900 Census. Of the children, from memory, besides Mary Anna, b1856, dying as a young child, Isabella "Bella," b~1862, died between Age 19-21 (d~1882), and I'm not recalling what happened to John HANNAH, b~1861. William HANNAH, b1859, married and moved to Harvard, MA, and remained there with his family. George HANNAH, b~1871, never married; and lived in Medford and Somerville. Thank you for your time. Enjoy your Holiday weekend ! Betty (near Lowell, MA) * My great-grandmother, Mrs. William KERR, nee' Elizabeth HANNAH, always told everyone that she arrived in this country when she was 3 months old "in a handbasket." ** William HANNAH was born in Donegal, Ireland, in 1828, but his parents were born in Scotland. Eliza RITCHIE was born in Donegal, Ireland, in 1837, but her parents were born in Scotland. I am told that the families were probably poor, and moved around a lot looking for work ! More notes: When I rechecked the 1860 Census, I found two other HANNAH's living in Billerica. Richard HANNAH, Age 30, and his wife, and Mary A. HANNAH, 22, living as servant in someone's home. Both had been born in Ireland. There is no way of knowing whether they were William's siblings, but it is possible. (I have not been able to find information on the siblings of William and Eliza.) I have no way of knowing which port William and Eliza and their babies arrived in. I'm told they might have come to PA and traveled north, or they could have arrived in NS / CAN and traveled south. Would a trip to NARA in Waltham be the easiest way for me to find out which ship they came on and which port they arrived at? If William and Eliza had a 2-year-old daughter when they left Scotland in 1857, but they did not have a 5-year-old daughter in the 1860 census, it has just occurred to me ... that she might not have survived the trip ! Someone just told me that her death is not mentioned in MA records, so another thought is that she died in whichever port they arrived at !