Thank you, both, for the further information.
Shellyesqu, I had a quick search and as you say, nothing coming up, but I'll try searching in more detail for all of the family at a later date and see what happens - thanks
dettori - what can I say? Yet again an absolute gem, and it would explain why Adam wasn't listed on the Caledonia with the rest of his family.
Perhaps I'm not academic enough in this research lark, but everything you have told me has just brought the family more to life than producing lists of dates.
A little boy born, died and buried in April, joining one of his elder brothers in the local graveyard, in an unmarked pauper's grave. Within a couple of months the father says goodbye to them all and heads off across the Atlantic. Two months after that the mother and surviving children follow, all steerage, nothing romantic about a voyage like that. What must that year have been like for them?
Those who say genealogy is just a list of dates and names don't know the half of it.
