Help me find Norway origins of a ships carpenter.

Simon Erlandsen, ships carpenter, immigrated in 1853 to Chicago with wife Bertha (April 1822 - 1902) and children John (c1850 - ?) and Lena (c1852 - ?). I do not find them in passenger lists. I do not know where in Norway they were from. My research seems to be at a dead end. After Simon's death between 1876 and 1880 the family used the surname Simonson. Two more children, Theo and Severin Barton, were born in Chicago, but both died of tuberculosis with only one surviving child, Barton's daughter, my grandmother Ruth Simonson Robertson (1882-1971). Lena Simonson was single in 1870 and was the widow Lena Evans in 1880. Nothing more of John and Lena is known. Simon's wife Bertha had a sister who probably immigrated with them; this sister may have been Helena Smith (? - 1894), widow of Arthur Theodore Smith, who lived in Evanston across the street from Barton's parents-in-law.