Thank you for the help and info, the Maria I have in my tree was born 1816 sister to my 3x great grandmother Ann Darby 1826 daughters of William and Hannah, I did pick up that they may have emigrated if you do have any info I would love to know what happened to them thanks for all your help.

You'll need to cross check with records,( as always with anyone else's research, including mine) however one Ancestry tree gives Maria's death as :-

1892 3 Jan Age: 74 Frostburg, Allegany, Maryland, United States

George's as:-

1894 25 Jun Age: 82 Frostburg, Allegany County, MD Buried: Frostburg Memorial Park, Frostbury, Allegany, Maryland
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=KEA&GSpartial=1&GSbyr...

and travel from Bristol to New York arriving
1849 27 Jun
Age: 37 New York, New York Age: 38 (?)

and a Phillip born circa 1845 - would like to see the sources census / passenger list to confirm this

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One of the better cited trees gives the children as:-

Hannah 1838-1920
Charlotte 1843-1910
Phillip 1845

All born in Gloucestershire.

George William 1850-1930
Susan 1852
Louisa 1854
Isaac 1858

All born in Maryland.

Another tree gives date of arrival in New York as 27/06/1849 (New York Passenger Lists cited).

Not necessarily done all their homework though since they also cite George senior as living in Cheltenham in 1851 (with a different mother). Just possible I suppose, but something of a commute!

You will be able to see the root of these possible trees without being a member of Ancestry - just type the name and date of birth into the Public Member Trees search facility on the home page. To get any further will require roubles.

The owners of the trees can (theoretically, at least) be contacted once a sub is in place. Otherwise I could pass on an email address to them if you wanted.

I have traced likely relatives of mine to Frostburg too.Eliza Vaughan/Vaugn born 1820 in Whitecroft, married William Bowen born 1816 Parkend, both died in 1896 in Frostburg. They had 14 children and emigrated to the USA at some point after they married and before they had their first child in 1841. They married in January 1840 (in both the C of E and R.C.) in Newland. One of their children married someone called Gunter, again likely to be from a Forest of Dean family. Eliza Vaughan is also likely to be related to people who married into the Kear family in the FoD.

Are these related to this family? If not was the community in Frostburg chiefly from the FoD? William is listed as a miner.