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Thanks.  I will certainly add those surnames to the list.

John came to the US with one of his brothers, who was also a butcher.  I have a copy of William's first US passport (handwritten); however, I will work to find his BC.  John ended up owning a grocery store in Louisville, KY since his name and store are shown in the Louisville City Directory in 1870. 

These are my birth mother's ancestors.  She died before I found my birth family and no one else in the Tate family cares about their ancestry.  It would have been great to find out something about my ancestors from them; however, I've done everything alone. 

Here is their oldest child.  He married a woman named Emma:

William Tate Sr.
1839–1881
BIRTH 1839 • New York, USA
DEATH AFT. 1881 • Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, USA
2nd great-grandfather

I have her in the 1870 Census in Louisville, Kentucky.  This is her husband.  John owned a grocery store on West Broadway in Louisville and Rosanna was a midwife.  These are my mother's immigrant ancestors:

John Tate
1816–1870
BIRTH 26 MAR 1816 • Selby, Yorkshire, England
DEATH AFT. 1870 • Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, USA
3rd great-grandfather

I've never seen her marriage certificate; however, I do know that she was a spinster when she came to the US from Liverpool in 1834.