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Anton Pederson Smeby, along with wife Mathilda
and sons Ole and Peder, left Oslo, Norway on April 20th, 1888. They sailed on the S.S. Angelo to the Port of Hull, England. From Hull they traveled by train to Liverpool, England where they boarded the Gallia. Our Smeby ancestors traveled below deck on the Gallia with 1,288 other steerage passengers. The Gallia landed at the Port of New York on May 4th, 1888. Castle Garden served as New York's immigrant landing depot at that time.
It is not documented exactly how our ancestors arrived in the Midwest. We assume they took the route of the majority of the immigrants. From New York passage on a steamship up the Hudson river to Albany. From Albany to Buffalo, either by rail or a horse drawn barge on the Erie Canal. From Buffalo a steamboat to Cleveland. From Cleveland to Detroit Sound through the Lakes and Straits and ending at Milwaukee Bay, Wisconsin. Here a long wooden pier had been built for the sole purpose of docking the steamboats bringing new immigrants.
The first evidence of our Smebys in the United States is the birth of Anna in Brownsville, Minnesota on April 22nd, 1889.
Name change:
SMEBY was changed to SMABY about 1903/1904
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