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

Obviously from England to America by boat. Whether or not they continued by boat further inland, families could travel by covered wagon. I would guess since one of my families did that in the 1870's, going from Cleveland to Pennsylvania, that it was a common mode of transportation before the railways became used more for long hauls. The wagon broke down, and rather than take the time to fix it, the family split up into different wagons with other people and left much behind rather than risk getting "attacked by Indians." On 11/29/08, harvieandliz <hebarker@shaw.ca> wrote: > 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?

Of course once the Erie canal (1825) and the Wellend Canal (1829) this would have been the prefered (faster) method of travel.  By the 1820s Ohio towns and villages were connected by rail and by the 1850s interstate rail was in use and this would have been faster than traveling on oft times muddy "roads" or by canal.   http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?gmd:13:./temp/~ammem_taCF::   And I know that when my ancestors came from Croatia and from Belgium that a rail ticket to their destination was purchased in Europe, this was between 1891 and 1905 (Croatia) and in 1907 (Belgium) Robert Jerin Click below to see my May 2009 Croatia tour  http://www.kollander-travel.com/media/jerincroatia09.pdf --- On Sat, 11/29/08, harvieandliz <hebarker@shaw.ca> wrote: From: harvieandliz <hebarker@shaw.ca> Subject: [OHCUYAHO] how did folks arrive at Ohio from Britain 1850s? To: OHCUYAHO@rootsweb.com Date: Saturday, November 29, 2008, 10:19 PM 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