I don't have any written information but I would think this is likely. The family would have traveled by wagon or more likely two wheeled cart to the head of navigation on a tributary of the Seine in France, then by river boat down the Seine to Havre. The adults would have walked and the children and the family belongings would have been caarted. In that time period and earlier people moved from New England to Ohio and to Indiana, much longer jouneys than from the Pfalz to Le Havre. Yes the trip down the Rhine to Rotterdam would have been easier but many more ships sailed from Havre to NYC and New Orleans as that is where the mail and freight traffic was. bob gillis Bjorkman wrote: > > Last week I was successful finding the ships manifest for my > THURN ancestors from the port of Havre, France to New York. > > They lived in Kirchheimbolanden in the Pfalz, which is about 30 > km NNW of Kaiserslautern. The question is, " How did they travel > from KB to the port of Havre? > > There is no direct river connection ...... were railroads running > that then? Stages? They traveled with their two and five year old sons, > so walking was out of the question. > > Does anyone have any information on the most likely mode of travel in > this period, either in print or in anecdotal documentation? > > BTW, the American flag ship, ROGER SHERMAN, carried 190 passengers. > Thirteen were French, the remaining 177 were Bavarians. It appears they > may have had an advertised one-way special running in the Pfalz > newspapers. :-) > > Bob Bjorkman