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As of January 2020:

It appears that Castle Garden is now being called Castle Clinton. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Clinton

Many genealogy websites do not yet give the Castle Clinton name currently used for Castle Garden, so the change may have been relatively recent.

It seems the Castle Garden ship manifests database has been subsumed by the Ellis Island database. See: https://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/expanded-passenger-records-release

This is the link to the Ellis Island Immigration Records, 1820-1957 Search page:  https://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/passenger

I discovered this when a friend to whom I had given links to Castle Garden information could no longer make the links.

Best wishes to all.

CORRECTION

I need to correct information in my 16 May 2012 post:

The first who arrived in America saved some of their earnings to help pay the ship passage of the rest of the family. *WILLIAM*, the patriarch, his daughter Elizabeth, her husband John Dillon and their children were the last to immigrate.

Hello, again, andid -

Are you familiar with the one-name study of those with the Pinkerton surname, compiled by Geoff Pinkerton: The Pinkerton Resource Page?

It has taken me a few days to locate it. This is the link:
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~pinkerton/genealogy/index.html

Be sure to follow through on the links in the left sidebar of the main page.

The information Geoff Pinkerton has compiled may prove helpful to you and others.

I enjoyed your tales of family drama. And some people think their ancestors were boring.

Best wishes -
Jean

Hello, andid -

It seems County Antrim and the Ballymoney area was full of Pinkertons and still is. I have no idea if your Ballymoney Pinkertons are kin to mine.

As far as I know, my Ballymoney Pinkertons immigrated to upstate New York in the USA, with some of them going on to Central Wisconsin. Three of my Pinkertons (2 brothers and 1 first cousin), all from County Antrim, married 3 McAllister sisters, who were all from Belfast, Co. Antrim. Robert Pinkerton (b. 1823, son of Robert, b.1770 and Jane Lockridge Pinkerton) was 1st cousin to brothers Samuel David Pinkerton (b.1832), my direct ancestor, and John Pinkerton (b.1835). Robert (b. 1823) married Rachel McAllister. Samuel David and John married younger sisters of Rachel McAllister, Jane and Sarah Anne, respectively. They were all married in Washington Co., New York, USA.

All the best to you in your research.
Jean

@Optyknox

The Hughes family I am researching for my significant other is this one:

Information from:
1901 Ireland Census; National Archives of Ireland
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Tyrone/Tullyniskane/Coal_Island/1737842/
and other sources

Father: John Hughes (born: about 1855, County Tyrone, Ireland, United Kingdom)
Mother: Catherine Hughes (maiden name may also have been Hughes) (born: about 1856, County Tyrone, Ireland, United Kingdom)

Children, all born in County Tyrone, Ireland, United Kingdom; All Roman Catholic:
- Son, Joseph (born: about 1886; actual birth date MAY have been: 21 May 1885)
- Daughter, Sarah (born: about 1888; date of christening MAY have been 28 May 1887, at Clonoe
       Parish Roman Catholic Church, christened name MAY have been Sarah Jane)
- Daughter, Ellen (born: about 1889, per 1901 Ireland census; born: 27 Mar 1889, Derrytresk,
        Coalisland, County Tyrone, Ireland, United Kingdom, per death record, christening record,
        and Ireland Civil Registration record; Christened: 28 Mar 1889, Clonoe Parish Roman Catholic
        Church); Immigrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA aboard the ship Merion, arriving 17
        Apr 1910; Married Joseph McNally about 1911, per 1930 U.S. Federal Census; (died: 26 Sep
        1960, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
- Son, Patrick (birth 30 Oct 1890) Christened: 4 Nov 1890 (death: about 1909
- Son, John (born: POSSIBLY 1892)
- Daughter, Annie [Anna] (born: 2 Dec 1895, Derrytresk, Coalisland, County Tyrone, Ireland,
         United Kingdom); Immigrated to Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA aboard
         ship Haverford out of Liverpool, England, arriving 16 Sep 1912; Married Francis Patrick O’Neill
         in 1915 at Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA; (died: 19 Nov 1948,
         Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA)
- Daughter, Bridget (born: 16 Jan 1898); Christened: 11 Feb 1898, Gortgonis, Coalisland, County
         Tyrone, Ireland, United Kingdom; Married Alexander Brady, Mar 1919, Dungannon, County
         Tyrone, Ireland, United Kingdom; (died: 5 May 1971, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland)

Best wishes with your research at Coalisland.

Jean