What a coincidence that you would post your message the same day Margaret Stanton-Fisher (also a correspondent on the message board) faxed me a copy of "History of the Cumberland Family" by Emily Independence Cumberland Clingan.
The names you mention seem to fit in with the children of William Edwin Cumberland and Annie Coombs. Their names were: Susan, Roger, John, Sidney, Emily, Walter Paul, Austin, Jeannette, and Alonza. Their birthdates would be in the 1850's.
William Edwin was the son of John Cumberland, Sr. (born 1804) and his third wife: Susannah King Johnson. Susannah was a widow with 4 childern when she married John in 1848. John had 11 children from his first two marriages (including two sets of twins). Altogether that made for 18 children!
John, Sr. took up the boat building business and ran the boatyard for 50 years. John Jr. (son of 1st wife) carried on the business after his father's death in 1876.
I am a descendant of Charles Theodore Cumberland -- John Sr.'s son by his second wife. I have a picture of my Great-Grandfather, John Riley Cumberland working on a boat at the boatyard as late of 1931.
f these names fit into your family history, email me directly at
MSRAgresti@aol.com.