 The US Census of 1900 records that Lina, like her husband, had English and Belgian ancestry (a Belgian father and an English mother).The Washingtons' arrival in the United States on a ship from Antwerp, Belgium, on October 6, 1896, was recorded at Ellis Island, though the 1900 US Census states that they emigrated to the United States in 1897.The Washingtons settled in the New York area, where they had three children