One thing I know absolutely nothing about is American Immigration. I need someone to help me, or to point me in the right direction.
I am trying to find out when an Ancestor of mine, James Boothman, emigrated to the States in the 1850’s. His wife, Matty Boothman, (named Martha on the ship’s manifest), went over from Liverpool to New York on the Manhattan, arriving in New York on 8th September 1857. Matty went over with 5 of her 6 children, all except Elizabeth, neither did her husband James accompany her.
It is suspected that James and Elizabeth either went over before Matty, in order to “prepare the way”, or afterwards. I cannot find either of them on any of the manifest lists of people arriving in the States through New York, so I suspect they may have arrived elsewhere, maybe even in Canada, and came down into the States.
Their last child, registered as being born in the U.K., was Clara, registered in the third quarter of 1855, so James must have been in the U.K. until at least 1854. Both James and Elizabeth, (Lizzie), along with the rest of the family, appear on the 1860 United States Census living in Hopkinville, Christian State, Kentucky, on 1st June 1860, so he must have arrived in the States between 1855 and 1860.
Any help, anyone can offer, would be greatly appreciated.