Hi Elaine, If you do get any information I should be most interested, I'm trying to track the movements of someone who supposedly did the NY to SF trip in 1856, so want to learn as much as I can about the route. Thanks, bye for now, Dorothy, Victoria, Canada On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Elaine Waiters wrote: > The wonderful postings about "sea stuff" prompted me to dig out information > about the arrival of my gg-grandparents in San Francisco. > > According to family records, David HOWELL went back east to IL from Napa, > CA, in 1855. He was supposed to buy farm equipment for his father, Isaac > HOWELL, and bring his brother & his brother's wife & baby back out to CA. > > David met Martha Ellen WADE in IL, and they eloped. They and his brother's > family traveled to NY where they boarded the "George Law" steamship to the > Isthmus of Panama. At the Isthmus, Panamanian natives carried them and > their luggage through the surf to the railroad dock. The railroad was not > quite finished, and they had to walk the last 1 1/2 miles into Panama. > (Descendants talk about a mule train across part of the Isthmus; was it a > train with an engine or a mule train??) > > The five Howell's boarded the ship "Golden Age" to San Francisco. Family > records say they reached San Francisco on 1 June 1855. The wedding and > trip had taken all David's money, so he had no farm equipment for his > father. > > Does anyone have more information on the "Golden Age?" > > Elaine Waiters > [email protected] > > > ==== CA-GOLDRUSH Mailing List ==== > Automatic Administrative Reminder: > To forestall future flames, please remember to include > data sources; tell us where you found it! > > > > > > >