"Perhaps they emigrated elsewhere?" I have had a quick look but did not find your exact family. More children may have been born etc For Australia in the early days -check first the NSW State Records on www.records.nsw.gov.au and then go to the Archives etc. There is an easy key name search as well.( use variations) Have a good play aaround also on other sites as they have all sorts of records including SOME but not all shipping records. With assisted immigration there were restrictions on who could come so perhaps only younger children may have come, older children had to have a bounty paid which may have been too expensive and those travelling sometimes gave inaccurate ages to bypass restrictions as well. eg: Thomas if alive may have reduced his age a lot if he could get away with it. All members of the family may not have come on the same ship. During the time period you are investigating there was massive immigration into Australia as well as USA because of the GoldRush in 1851. . There are other Archives for Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia depending on the time frame. Best Wishes Penny Ferguson 11419 ----- Original Message ----- Subject: SFHG Digest, Vol 3, Issue 233 > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:51:49 EDT > From: JMBecker@aol.com > Subject: [SFHG] HUMPHREYS of Hailsham > > Hello! > I am trying to find out what became of the following family who > disappeared > after 1851. I have been unable to find any of them in any subsequent > Census, > nor have I found them in Free BMD in Sussex. I have checked the 1880 US > and > 1880 Canadian Census on Familysearch but no joy there either. Perhaps > they > emigrated elsewhere?