I'm responding to the information posted by Vincent Summers in hopes of learning more about the Ayres family. My ancestor Samuel Chew married Anne Ayres in Maryland. Her parents are William Ayres b. abt 1610 in Va. and Sarah Marsh. Anyone researching this family and wishing to exchange data please contact me. Gene gwgenie@alltel.net ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vincent wrote: In seeking for my Philadelphia/Dauphin AYRES on the Ellis Island website, I ran across *this* AYRES that is not mine, but belongs, doubtless, to someone on the Cumberland County mailing list: Arthur Ayres b June 24, 1895 Mechanicsburg, Pa. lived in 1923 at 3927 Chancellor St., Phila., Pa. He traveled from Cherbourg, France to NY port, arriving Oct 15, 1923. Again, The Leviathan, this time November 3, 1923, Cherbourg France, with this data: Ayres Arthur 30 M S Born Jan. 24, 1893, Mechanicsburg, Pa. Living at: 23rd & Westmoreland Street, Philadelphia, Pa. The other entry for October was Xed out! Vince