Look Up Request - New York Passenger lists 1851-1859

[Joof]

I was wondering if someone would be kind enough to look up my great (x4) grandfather on the passenger lists to New York leaving England at some point between 1851 and 1859 please.
His name was William Coult (born 1801) and he took his son William James (born 1830) with him and I suspect he took his second wife Mary with him and possibly daughter Anna (b.1838) too.
Father & son ended up in Salt Lake City and the son appears to have married two women on the same day in 1859 so I suspect they were Mormons.
Any help would be greatly appreciated both on the passenger lists and whether they are likely to have become Mormons in rural Essex or converted when they arrived.
Yours in hopeful anticipation, Jo

[merjones]

April 25, 1859

Departure: Liverpool, England
Arrival: New York

Ship: Henry Clay

William Coult age 59, Engineer, born Scotland
Mrs. Coult age 51 or 57 born Scotland
Anna Coult age 19, born Scotland

[merjones]

Salt Lake City Cemetery Records

Name: William Coult
Birth Date: Aug 10, 1801
Birth Place: Yonel Surrey England
Death Date: 18 Mar 1883
Death Place: Salt Lake City, Utah
Plot:   11265 C-5-1-W-1/2
Burial Date: 18 Mar 1883

Name: Mary Coult
Birth Place: England
Death Date: 2 Dec 1882
Death Place: Salt Lake City, Utah
Plot:   11084 C-5-1
Burial Date: 2 Dec 1882

[Lisa in California]

Coult's buried in Salt Lake Cemetery:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSfn=&GSmn=&GSln=coult&GSby=&GSbyrel=in&GSdy=&GSdyrel=in&GScntry=4&GSst=47&GSob=c

[Joof]

Thanks so much Merjones for looking both up. The Cemetery records fit with what I know but I'm a little concerned about the passenger lists missing the son William James and stating their birthplace as Scotland as they were definitly born in England. Is it possible this bit was just wrong on the records and the son followed them out or could there have been two families travelling around the same time ?

Any ideas on how I would find out what their lives were like in America and when they became Mormons ?

Sorry...so many questions !!!   Yours gratefully, Jo

[Lisa in California]

Jo, one of my ancestor's was born in Essex.  He and his wife left Essex in 1857 (settling in Canada).  His cousin, or other somewhat close relative left Dunmow, Essex around the same time and settled in Utah.  From what I gather, this family was apparently Mormon while still in England.  (My ancestor wasn't Mormon.)

However, when helping several people in the past, we've found records of their ancestors as they were heading to Utah.  I've done a quick search and so far do not find the same for your William Coult.  This makes me wonder if he was a Mormon before leaving England.

[Lisa in California]

Three people in North America submitted records for William on FamilySearch:
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=/eng/search/ancestorsearchresults.asp

They may know something about him.

[The link doesn't work.  I typed William Coult, born England.]

[Lisa in California]

If your William James was born in 1837, it appears that he died in 1893.  I was hoping to find him on the 1900 census, which may have given his date of immigration.

In case you haven't found William (b1801) and Mary on the 1880 census, they are listed as "Cowlt."

[Lisa in California]

William James Coult's daughter's headstone:
http://utahgravestones.org/view.php?id=10394

I don't think I've included this...some people mention the Coult family:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi
Search for Coult, William, born 1801
The link isn't working right now, but it was earlier, so you might have to wait a bit to actually see their information.