Hello, I will give you a possible migration route derived from my own family research. First of all, you have the intial voyage across the Atlantic. Which type of ship they used depended on how much money they wanted to spend on the ticket. For example: you could take a regular passenger ship from Liverpool to New York City. But if you needed to save on the fare you would take a Canadian Lumber ship on it's return trip, empty of lumber. This was the cheapest and it was widely used, especially by Irish people. In the case of the Canadian ship, you would then be discharged in St. John, New Brunswich, or Montreal or Quebec, then board a smaller packet boat and make the short trip into New York harbor. Either way, from New York Harbor you get on a River boat, go North up the Hudson River to Upstate New York to discharge at Albany, NY. Then transfer to a canal boat, taking various canal routes due West, the Erie Canal being a big part of the journey. Discharge on Lake Ontario at Rochester, NY. Get on a ship there and sail West, then South into a Port, perhaps Cleveland. Another variation would be to discharge in Pennsylvania, perhaps at Erie, PA. then using wagon trains to travel due South and then due West, depending on the exact place in Ohio you wanted to arrive at. There are so many possible routes to take. I learned alot by reading first hand accounts of how people came to certain places and then assumed my ancestors most likely followed a similar route. I suggest trying to research history books of the area or community they settled at, and see if there is any explaination of how most people got there, expecially immigrants. This could be done through google.com research online, or at a library. I am always curious as to WHY an immigrant picked a certain place? Sometimes they were following the foot steps of a relative who had already settled there, or they had heard a Preacher from American who stated where he was from, and they assumed that place must be wonderful, so they go there. Or they are going to a specific JOB. For example, the FLAX Mills which were in Lima, Allen County, OH. I wonder why your relatives chose Ohio, as opposed to New York or anywhere else? My own ancestor arrived in Ohio about 1852, or 1853, from Wurttemberg, Germany. I think from around Stuttgardt. I still have never found his passnger record, he was John D. Miller, perhaps originally the name was Johannes Dietrich Muller. He died in Lima, OH. Best regards, Lilly Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: "harvieandliz" <hebarker@shaw.ca> To: <OHCUYAHO@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 5:19 AM Subject: [OHCUYAHO] how did folks arrive at Ohio from Britain 1850s? > Dear listers: > > I wonder if someone has stories of how folks came from Britain in 1850s > and how they got to Ohio? especially Euclid township? > > Would they have travelled by boat to the northern Ohio shore? or some > other means? > > thanks Liz of BC Canada > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OHCUYAHO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >