Immigrant Ships
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SS Gaelic

I, WG Pearne, Master of the Steamship Gaelic do solemnly, sincerely, and truly swear that the following List or Manifest, subscribed by me, and now delivered by me to the Collector of the Customs of the Collection District of San Francisco, is a full and perfect list of all Chinese passengers taken on board the said vessel at Hong Kong & Yokohama from which port said vessel has now arrived, or that have been taken on board the said vessel at any foreign port or place, and of all such passengers now on board said vessel, and that on said List is truly designated the names and other particulars, as shown by their respective certificates.So help me God. (signature) Wm G Pearne
Sworn to this 9 day of March 1894, before me, (signature) JJ Tobin, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the Steamship Gaelic whereof WG Pearne is Master, from Hong Kong & Yokohama, burthen 2690 tons

Columns represent: Number, No of Certificate*, Name, Age, Occupation*, Last Place of Residence*, Height*, Complexion*, Color of Eyes*, Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification*, If accredited oficers of Chinese Government, state facts.

 1* 929 Se Se    Chang      4? ? Official Hong Kong Landed 9-Mar 
 2* ?85 Tu       Tin  Young 33 Merchant   Hong Kong Landed 10-Mar Affdt Merchant
 3* ?86 Tin      Hai  Sung  33 Merchant   Hong Kong Landed 10-Mar Affdt Merchant
 4* ?87 Tung     Wing Cho   39 Merchant   Hong Kong Landed 10-Mar Affdt Merchant
 5* ?88 Chin     Sung       39 Merchant   Hong Kong Landed 10-Mar Affdt Merchant
 6* ?89 Ting     Tie        37 Merchant   Hong Kong Landed 10-Mar Affdt Merchant
 7* ?90 Su       Cheng      46 Merchant   Hong Kong Landed 10-Mar Affdt Merchant
 8* ?77 Chui     Hoy        40 Merchant   Hong Kong Landed 10-Mar Affdt Merchant
 9* ?72 Chu      Kai        48 Merchant   Hong Kong Landed 12-Mar Affdt Merchant
10* ?75 Chun     Gim  Shing 29 Merchant   Hong Kong Landed 9-Mar 
11* ?94 Mrs Tung Sin        23 wife       Hong Kong Refused  Habeas Corpus USDC Case 10905       
12* ?95 Su       Bing       29 Merchant   Hong Kong Landed 10-Mar Affdt Merchant
13* ?96 Su       Hing       40 Merchant   Hong Kong Landed 12-Mar Affdt Merchant
14* ?97 Ming     Tong       51 Merchant   Hong Kong Landed 12-Mar Affdt Merchant
15* ?98 Yum      Man  Chue  25 Merchant   Hong Kong Landed 10-Mar Affdt Merchant

             Recapitulation
                            Males   Female   Total
             San Francisco    13       1       14*

Transcriber's Notes:

* An asterisk indicates an error on the part of the original recorder, not the transcriber,
 or calls attention to additional information in the transcriber notes.

The pages on this film are not numbered so finding a particular ship can be difficult.  
 However, there appears to be a system of numbering the manifests.  These numbers are
 included in the identification of the film and reel numbers below.

For passengers bound for San Francisco, passengers' names and ages are followed by a stamp 
 that varies depending on the disposition of the passenger and which is stamped over whatever 
 information has been entered in the columns. 
Passengers allowed to land have the following stamp:
 Landed Collectors order (blank with a month and day date written in) 1894 by  Insp's (blank 
 for a name, in this case Grant). 
 
Passengers not allowed to land have one of two different stamps:
 Refused Habeas Corpus U.S.D.C. Case followed by a number.  These passengers were probably 
  allowed to land, but not to freely enter the country.  The National Archives should have
  a file for these passengers describing what happened to them.
 Refused Departed Per Steamer ______ (name of ship) _________ (date).

The following columns had no entries and are not included in the table:
 Height
 Complexion
 Color of Eyes
 Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification

There is a leading digit in the No of Certificate that is illegible for all but passenger 1.
 It is also different from that for passenger 1.  It could be a three or five.

Occupation is universally recorded as Merchant or Grocer because following the Chinese 
 Exclusion Act of May 6, 1882 admission was denied to all Chinese except laborers already 
 in the US and "students, teachers, merchants or those proceeding to the United States from 
 curiosity."

Last Place of Residence is stamped over but appears to be Hong Kong for passenger 1 and ditto
 marks for all others.


The Recapitulation is difficult to read.  The total looks like 14.

1  has a note in the last column "landed under Dept Letter dated Feb 28 94"  He was landed
    by Inspector Tobin, not Grant.
11 has a note in the last column "landed under Dept Letter dated Feb 28 94"  She was landed
    by Inspector Tobin, not Grant.