Is this it? The reason I could not find an Isabella Pearce on any of the ships' passenger lists the first time around was because she may have been listed as "Miss Pearce" - as in the Miss. Pearce on the above record - the fifth from the bottom. This Miss. Pearce (listed as a spinster) and apparently travellng with a Mr. Pearce, who may have been a brother (?) was aboard the SS Circassian, and arrived in Quebec on the 22nd of September, 1873. It fits. But is it her? I realize that this image is total crap to look at, and I shall try and make it better when I get home to my own computer.
Happily, I can confirm that there is an Isabella Pearce showing up in the LDS records of Canadian ships' passenger lists, but, I would have to pay to see the record. I found that an hour ago and have been trying to figure it out another way now, as I am not going to get to an LDS family research center in the next week. We're onto something though. Once A.R. mentioned in yesterday's email that she'd been speaking with a cousin of my grandmother's, who also remembered the story as being that it was Isabella that went to America, I decided to have another try at finding her on a ship's list somewhere.
And if this is our Isabella, who was the Mr. Pearce she was travelling with, I wonder? And did he stay in North America?
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