Can anyone help me please I am researching my Fathers side of the family and have managed to get back to late 1700/ 1800's with this side of the family but have now hit a brick wall. I have William Porte who died 1840 in Beverly but I can not find any birth records for him I do know he married Mary Hurd Battee b 1797 from South Dalton in 1825. I am lead to believe that this side of the family originate from France/Spain and am now at the point where I think maybe this is where the Porte family arrived in England. Can anybody help point me in the direction where to go next as to trying to find out if this is so and how do I go about searching immigrants into this country. Any help or advice would be gratefully received.
Sandra