Dear Diane, Thank you so much for offering to do this. The surname is PESTER. Edwin may have been traveling with his wife Sarah Jane and daughter Maria J., or he may have made two trips quite close to 1851, one of them alone. He sailed from England, and although he lived in Hull (Kingston upon Hull) they may have left from Liverpool. He was in Davenport, Iowa by 1852, but it isn't clear whether his wife and child were with him at that point or came later. Thanks again for the effort. Sarah