Thank you, Shelly.

tracey43: Were there any significant events in Edward's (English) family that might have given him a reason to have tried to briefly return to England? Any deaths, or anything?
A Jane Ashenden sailed to New York in 1862, but it appears that she was Irish, born c1802. (Thinking perhaps Edward was going to greet someone arriving in New York.)
Do you know when his wife returned to the UK? If it was fairly soon after his death, maybe they could have been planning on returning? Or, if it wasn't shortly after his death, she finally decided to return?

Could they (the entire famliy) also have relocated to New York after 1860, to be closer to work?