Does anyone in America have an ancestor named MISCHLER (or similar) or MITCHELL, born in Hessen, Germany who may have had siblings or relatives who emigrated from Germany to Britain instead of America - especially Glasgow, Scotland?

Many Europeans travelled to America via British ports, and some for unknown reasons ended up staying in Britain.

My great-grandfather was born in 1833 in Hessen, Germany, the birth registered in Frankfurt am Main, and although called LEWIS MITCHELL in Glasgow his birth-name was said to be LOUIS MISCHLER - or similar. My mother pronounced it Meesh-ler" but I have never seen the name in writing

He was married in Glasgow by a Methodist clergyman in 1855 to Mary Dougherty, born Cork, Ireland. Unfortunately the name on the marriage registration is the British Lewis Mitchell and those of his parents (by then deceased) PETER MITCHELL (Barber) and CATHERINE SMITH. They could have been PETER MISCHLER and CATHERINA/CATHARINA... and the name SMITH may have been substituted for a German name.

I found my great-grandparents six years after they wed, in the 1861 Glasgow census and his name is LOUIS MITCHILE. With a German accent the enumerator may have written down the name as it sounded to him. In 1871 census he is Lewis Mitchell.

When he married aged 22 his occupation was Glazier. However later he was a Master Slater, as was his son (of the same name) who eventually started his own business in Glasgow.

Louis/Lewis and Mary had 11 children, that I know of, some died young. They would have been given names from each family and included: Louis/Lewis, Jane, Mary Ann, John, Robert, Elizabeth, Catherine Isabella, Peter, George and Hellen. Peter obviously is from the father's side and possibly Catherine Isabella.

This is a long shot, but many Germans named MISCHLER and similar emigrated to America, including those of that name from Hessen-Drarmstadt. My great-grandfather's siblings or cousins or other family members may have done so.

I have traced him in Glasgow, Scotland from 1855 until 1881. But I know nothing of his life from his 1833 birth in Germany until his 1855 marriage in Glasgow, Scotland.

Britain holds no shipping lists from Germany for that period as there was free movement between Europe and Britain, until I think about 1879.

Thank you.

Liz Allan in Scotland (nee Mitchell)