There is a family listed in the Ellis Island Records:-

Alfred French, Photographer, age 39 in 1906.
Sophia French also 39 in 1906
Alfred Robert French recorded as 18, a child, in 1906. I think he is probably 8 as the last letter of Robert has drifted into the age column.

They were on the Lucania arriving August 1906 at New York heading for Newark NJ. from the port of Liverpool.

The same journey was taken again by the father in 1909.

However they were listed as American Citizens.

Later they appear to move to Essez County NJ.

I wonder if his occupation as a photographer involved travelling and maybe he did a summer season on the Isle of Man.

Len Faragher