This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mFB.2ACE/2020.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for your reply. The Thompson line has me stumped too. I was told by my mother (Clarice Marie Thompson Westgate) that four Thompson brothers came to America from Ireland. On the first day of their arrival (don't know if that was arrival in Canada or the US) one of the brothers was struck and killed by a train. So I was looking for 4 Thompson brothers on one immigration ship. BUT in the 1900 Federal Census I found: Samuel R. Thompson b 1857 - head of household Elizabeth L Hoffman Thompson b 1869 - wife Anna Thompson Alice Thompson b 1885 Ida M. Thompson b 1886 Evaline L. Thompson b 1888 Maude Thompson b 1890 William J. Thompson b 1892 Robert Issac b 1896 (my grandfather) Samuel E . Thompson b 1898 It states that they had 2 other children so I assume that they were older and perhaps married. It states that Samuel R . Thompson immigrated from Northern Ireland in 1867 and that would make him about 9 at immigration. So did the four brothers come over bringing their families with them or ?? It states that Elizabeth L. Hoffman immigrated from Germany in 1863 at about the age of 4. Robert Isaac married Zellah Rose Conklin who was from Ohio. I know that one or two of grandpa's siblings lived in Ohio after they were grown. So the question is: who was Samuel R's parents and did they come over with other family members? I've always suspected that they came to NY, then to Pennsylvania and then moved to Ohio. Samuel R. must have moved to Michigan in the 1890s as my grandfather was born in Wellsville, Lenawee County, Michigan. Maybe we are looking for the same elusive family.