Isaac, who settled in Albert Co. New Brunswick, had a large family and three of his sons were sailors and were lost at sea. I had found son, George, listed with his shipmates in the 1881 census of Cornwall, England and noticed an "M" indicating he was married but did not think of an English marriage. It turns out that George, who was born abt 1853 in NB, married Sarah Ellen Short in Appledore, Cornwall in 1876. They had two children: William James born 1878 and Ellen Viola born 1880. Sarah died in childbirth in 1885 and George went back to sea and was lost off the Isle of Wight 26 Dec 1886. I have been corresponding with a descendant of Ellen Viola and she sent me a booklet written about the Appledore shipyard by Ellen's son, Len Harris. I thought you would find this excerpt interesting:

During the 1870s, when my grandfather, George Laverty, was trading at Appledore, Britain was in an economic depression. There were also other problems. Appledore's poor sanitation had incurred outbreaks of cholera during its history as well as cases of smallpox. Being a trading port, there was also another problem. It was something that my grandfather encountered on at least one occasion. This was the problem of ship's crew going AWOL - absent without official leave. On one particular occasion he went looking for his missing men. He found them in one of the local pubs. An argument broke out when he ordered his crew back to the ship. He was beaten up and thrown, unceremoniously, out of the pub and onto the street. As he was trying to get to his feet, Sarah Short came to his assistance. She took him back to her family home and took care of his injuries. A courtship ensued and in due course George and Sarah married. They had two children, William and Ellen, my mother. When William was seven years old and Ellen four, Sarah gave birth to a baby girl, Alice, who died soon after birth. Sarah died a week later following complicatiions from childbirth. Ellen was sent to live with her mother's sister in Irsha Street who could 'only take one more'. William was sent to live with his father's family in America and George went back to sea. On December 26th 1886, he encountered a storm and heavy seas off Portland. A day or so later, washed up on the shore was the wreckage of his ship, 'The Forest Queen'. There were no survivors.

Ellen Viola Laverty married Frederick Samuel Harris, son of Philip Harris, in 1900. They developed the Richmond Dock in Appledore which was very successful. Many of their descendants remain in the Appledore area. I have found that William James Laverty settled in Idaho USA, married Alice Sylvia Martin and had five children. He was listed in the 1891 census in Appledore, Cornwall and by 1910 he is established in Picabo, Idaho. The mystery here is "sent to live with his father's family in America" and how he ended up in Idaho.