Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS Gaelic

LIST OR MANIFEST OF ALIEN IMMIGRANTS FOR THE COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION.

Required by the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, under Act of Congress, approved March 3, 1893, to be delivered to the Commissioner of Immigration by the Commanding Officer of any vessel having such passengers on board upon arrival at a port in the United States.

Steamship Gaelic, sailing from Yokohama, July 29th, 1893 arriving at Port of San Francisco, Aug 15, 1893.

Columns represent: Number, Name, Age, Sex, (Either m for male and f for female), Married(m) or Single(s), Occupation, Nationality, Last Residence, Final Destination in the US, Whether having a ticket to final destination, Whether in Possession of Money-if less than $30, how much?, Whether ever before in the US,

  
1  Fukutaro Matsuoka 26y2m   m  s Student   Japanese Kumamoto    San Francisco	    yes 100  No
2  Moses Cotz	     34y6m   m  m Shoemaker Russian  Vladivostok San Francisco	    yes yes  No
3  Clara Cotz	     26y10m  f  m wife*						
4  Libby Cotz	      3y0m   f	  child*						
5  Barris Cotz	        8m   m	  child*						
6  ?tsukichi Mayemura 21y8m  m  s Student   Japanese Kanagawa*   San Francisco	    yes 30   No
7  Shokichi Sorai     47y0m  m  m Merchant  Japanese Wakayama    San Francisco	    yes 31   No
8  Tayokusu Nakahara  33y7m  m  m Merchant  Japanese Wakayama    San Francisco	    yes 31   No
9  Lozo	Nausen	      17y5m  m  s Student   Japanese Hiogo	 San Francisco	    yes 68   No
10 Harumatsu Uyida    32y7m  m  s Student   Japanese Wakayama    en route to Canada No  50   No
11 Kantaro Kishi      30y4m  m  s Merchant  Japanese Wakayama    San Francisco	    yes ?00* yes*
12 Niichi Tanyoshi    42y6m  m  m Merchant  Japanese Wakayama    San Francisco	    yes 31   No
13 Maorichi Matsumoto 20y9m  m  s Student   Japanese Wakayama    en route to Canada No  55   No
14 ?unesaburo Iwasaki 21y10m m  s Merchant  Japanese Wakayama    San Francisco	    yes 30   No
15 Yickichi Inose     23y6m  m  s Merchant  Japanese Ibaraki     San Francisco	    yes 50   No
16 Tsuto O Sugawara*  30y0m  m  s Student   Japanese Miiyagi     San Francisco	    yes yes  yes*                                   
    
Transcriber's Notes
There is no captain's statement nor captain's name attached to this manifest.
The following columns had identical entries for all passengers and so were 
not included in the table:
   1-Able to Read & Write=yes
   2-Seaport for Landing in the US=San Francisco
   3-By whom was passage paid?=himself
   4-Whether going to join Relative or Friend=No
   5-Whether ever in Prison, Almshouse or supported by Charity=no
   6-Whether a Polygamist=no
   7-Whether under contract to labor in the US=no
   8-Condition of Health Mental and Physical=good
   9-Whether having any deformities=no 
* Letters that are illegible or difficult to interpret are replaced by ?.
* 3  occupation is listed as wife to Moses Cotz.
* 4 & 5 occupation is listed as children of Mr and Mrs Moses Cotz.
* 6  There are cities called Kanagaza and Kakogawa in Japan.  This word is 
  clearly Kanagawa.
* 11 has been to San Francisco 1890, 1891, 1892 521 1/4 G?y St.  His money 
  could be 100.
* 16 It is not clear whether this surname is Osugawara or the "O" is an initial.  
  He was resident in California 8 years.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M1410, Reel 1 Page 58.

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