George and Sarah (Osborn) Esgate came to America from England in approx. 1851. I have looked at the Passenger Lists for New York and have yet to find their arrival documents. They arrived with their sons, John and James. From what I understand, the rest of their families remained in England.
At the time Castle Garden and Ellis Island did not exist.
For them, having their name on a ship's manifest was the culmination of a dream. A steerage ticket to America may have cost as much as two years' wages. That bought a crowded, 3,000-mile voyage of two weeks to a month as human cargo, suffering seasickness and unsanitary conditions on a diet of thin soup and bread. Harder still than the voyage was leaving behind everything and everyone they knew.
George and Sarah continued on to Ohio, just outside of Cleveland, to settle in Medina, Ohio.
If anyone has more information or copies of documents, please let me know.
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