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Hi "Jeelyjar" thanks for the response, my wife is from Greenock but now lives in England I have p. m, ed you, look forward to exchanging info, her late father knew very little about his German past, he was born in 1914 and experienced first hand the negative attitude to German nationals after WW1

I have discovered that the Schilp family I am researching came to Britain to work in the sugar refining industry which was almost exclusivley using imported German workers in the whitechapel area of London. they were in the 1881 census as living in St georges in the east Whitechapel, they then appeared in the 1891 census in Greenock Scotland, I later discovered that Greenock was a major town for sugar refining and sure enough the males in the family were recorded as glucose labourers or sugar house labourers. At about this time the sugar factories in London were in decline but Greenock was still going strong, this must have been why they made the trek all the way to the west of Scotland (with nine children in tow) what a journey that must have been.  Are we nearly there yet?

my gt granfather Robert Henry Dawson moved/emmigrated to America from Manchester about the 1890s but came back before 1901, thats the year my grandmother was born in Manchester, her older brother james had been born in america (his nickname was yank) apparently my grandad  went to America to work in some kind of logging business, conected with his or his wifes family, does anyone know which areas of America this logging/timber trade was, any kind of info would be a help

Hi Victoria try the Manchster and Lancashire F.H.S website re your Lancs cd's inquirey they have an extensive collection of books cd's micro fiche's etc for sale. I am a member and it is a very helpful society     www.mlfhs.org.uk    good luck!