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Thanks for the info, 2 more posts it is.  For anyone interested, in 1831 Joseph Pickering, the son of Mary Phelps and Joseph Rowles Pickering, and Ann Phelps, the daughter of John Phelps and Elizabeth Pickering, brought their family to America.  Both John Phelps and Mary Phelps appear to be children of William Phelps and Hester Young and siblings of the Thomas Phelps referenced elsewhere in this thread.  They lived in what is now the Forest of Dean district, left through the port at Bristol, arrived in New York, took the recently opened Erie Canal to the great lakes and settled in the area of Portage, Stark, and Columbiana Counties in North East Ohio.  A Year and a half later Joseph Pickering's brother William Phelps Pickering and his wife Mary Humpidge followed the same route with their family and they made that trip with Ann's brother William Phelps married to Ann (unknown).  A few years after them Joseph Pickering and William Pickering's sister Caroline Pickering who married Charles Haywood Jones arrived in the area.  Ann Phelps and William Phelps' brother Edwin who married Jane Berry arrived in the 1850's, Edwin died shortly thereafter and Jane remarried a Thomas Phelps (b. abt. 1800) who appears to have been a relative of Edwin, presumably another grandchild of William Phelps and Hester Young but I'm not sure which of their children he belongs to.  I descend from a group of 7 siblings born to a William and Ann Phelps, different from the pair mentioned above, possibly the William married to Ann Buston, possibly the William born to James Phelps who married Catherine Humpidge.  They came over without their parents in or around 1832, and some moved to Cedar County Iowa about 20 years later.  In all about 6 families worth of Phelps descendants totaling at least 44 people came over in the 1800's from Gloucestershire.  Again I think they were all descendants of siblings of the Thomas Phelps referenced here (James, Mary, and John).  The family relationships I have put together prior to their arrival here in the US are all speculative, corrections and new info is welcome.