Finding my 4th Great Grandparents

[josey]

According to the ship's record she arrived at Ellis Island alone.

I haven't looked for the ship's record myself - she may have been a servsnt with a family or come with relatives of a different surname. But 1834 is very early to have very informative ship's records.

Where did you find the ship's records, RSGrosse? And is MacCormick her birth or married name?

[RSGrosse]

According to the passenger list, she traveled alone from Liverpool to the US. 

[heywood]

Where did she settle?
Which is the earliest census you have for her?
Who did she marry?

[RSGrosse]

I have her in the 1870 Census in Louisville, Kentucky.  This is her husband.  John owned a grocery store on West Broadway in Louisville and Rosanna was a midwife.  These are my mother's immigrant ancestors:

John Tate
1816–1870
BIRTH 26 MAR 1816 • Selby, Yorkshire, England
DEATH AFT. 1870 • Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, USA
3rd great-grandfather

[RSGrosse]

Josey, the passenger list was found by a relative via Ancestry (I don't have a paid account).  MacCormick is her maiden name, she married John Tate (1816-aft. 1870) in the US.

[josey]

Great, thank you for the info. Something more to work on, I have a world ancestry subs but not one for rootsireland.ie. It would be good to find that marriage record - when was John  & Rosanna's first child born?

[RSGrosse]

Here is their oldest child.  He married a woman named Emma:

William Tate Sr.
1839–1881
BIRTH 1839 • New York, USA
DEATH AFT. 1881 • Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, USA
2nd great-grandfather

[Maiden Stone]

According to the passenger list, she traveled alone from Liverpool to the US.

A teenage girl might have been in different accommodation onboard to her parents or other relative. Young children with parents in family accommodation; adolescent girls & women in female berths; adolescent boys & lone men at opposite end to single women. A sister and brother who were teenage or older might have been in separate parts of the ship and not together on passenger list. I don't know if emigrant ships in 1830s organised passengers that way. 

[RSGrosse]

She was the only person named MacCormick on that passenger list.  I thought about the possibility that she might have been seperated from her parents.