A small proportion of skilled sugarbakers arrived in the UK to initially get the industry off the ground (16th-18thC), and later (18th-19thC) to run sugarhouses for the owners, many of whom were simply investors.
The great majority of migrant sugarbakers were labourers, often leaving areas with little employment for ag labs or avoiding service in the army.
Some came simply as labourers looking for work, whilst others were recruited from German villages for specific sugarhouses. There were also good lines of communication by which relatives already working here could inform younger family members and village friends that work was available.
Until later in the 19thC, the only skilled men in a sugarhouse were the boiler (who usually ran the place) and the bookkeeper ... and just one boiler might require 2 or 3 dozen labourers.
I would suspect that George, particularly if he came from rural Germany or further east, would have been a labourer.
For further reading regarding migration to UK look at ...
Panayi at
www.mawer.clara.net/ppanayi.html... and for a great read about working conditions look at ...
Greenwood at
www.mawer.clara.net/greenwood.htmlBeen looking at Alien Arrivals on A**y, but nothing, though there is a record of a Georg Haupt comb maker and wife returning from New York in 1843 after 2yrs away.
Also from A**y - Central Criminal Court - George Haupt, 48, imprisoned for 1 month for 'larceny by servant', 5 Apr 1847.
