Well I just checked all seven volumes of ships leaving France from about 1805 to the 1950's at the "Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild" - about 1/2 million passenger arrivals at all ports in US - no luck. Checked all the variations of surname spellings I could think of - it's so maddening to know that the info must be recorded somewhere, but you can't find it.

Kat - thanks for the offer. I have the bells & whistles version of Ancestry.com, and have searched many of the other on-line databases, like Heritage Quest, etc. Interesting that Ancestry got caught in a class action suit. Who woulda thunk ??