Destination: Family, Neighbors, or...?

Even though I found no evidence that the three orphaned Orth children (Magdelena-19, Jacob-12, and Georg-10) went to their Aunt Eve and Uncle Georg in Philadelphia, it's quite possible they did.  One might imagine that their father would have been headed to join his sister, and the children may have been set on following Plan A.  However, given that Eve Orth and Georg Bechtel (plus kids) emigrated 10 years earlier, only Magdalena would have had a memory of them (at age 9).  Jacob and Georg would have been too young to remember. Or perhaps the stronger pull for these three children was to connect with neighbors from the small village of Retschwiller who had recently emigrated to America, whom they would have known, and perhaps even journeyed with when they crossed the Atlantic.

This led me to search the emigration records to find others from Alsace that emigrated around 1849.  The two books entitled, the Alsace Emigration Book, Volume I (1989) and Volume II (1991), compiled by Cornelia Schrader-Muggenthaler provide a source of tens of thousands of names of Alsatian emigrants.  In the ten years before 1849, there is a record of 13 registered emigrants from "Retschwiller," "Retzwiller," "Ratzwiller," and "Richwiller." I searched each one of these individuals to look for obvious connections or at least patterns of destination.  New York seems to be the initial common destination for many of these Alsatian individuals, as the standard point of entry.  There were no obvious New Jersey connections from what I was able to find, however these two Schrader-Muggenthaler books are not comprehensive.  I also checked the Orth family's ship's passenger manifest to see if there were other Alsatians on board. Perhaps they were invited to accompany fellow Alsatians, who witnessed the death of their father, and subsequent illness and death of their mother.

The question is still unanswered: where did those three kids go once they landed in New York?