Be open to the possibility that more members of a family immigrated than you think. Family tradition was that an ancestral couple married in Switzerland and then migrated to the United States in the early 1850s where others of his family had settled as adults. Seemed like a very reasonable story.
Turns out that the wife immigrated as a child with her parents and that her future husband immigrated as an adult from a nearby village with members of his own family. She was not the only one from her family to immigrate as the family tradition seemed to suggest.
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I was surprised to discover that a great aunt immigrated twice! Anything is possible I guess.
Initially I found her, her mom (my greatgrandmother) and younger sister on a ship manifest entering through Castle Rock in 1882, age 7. Later while searching for confirmation of some family lore, I found her on another ship manifest, “re-immigrating” as a married woman with her husband and their five kids in 1903. At the time a woman’s status was tied directly to her husband’s, I believe, (is that correct?) and this was his first arrival in America.