Immigrant Ships
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SS City of Rio de Janeiro

I, JT Smith, Master of the City of Rio de Janeiro 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 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) JT Smith
Sworn to this 27th day of Feb 1894, before me, (signature) NS Farley, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the City of Rio de Janeiro whereof JT Smith is Master, from Hong Kong, burthen 2275.45 tons

Columns represent: Number, Ticket No*, 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*.

                For MId-Winter Fair*

 1  1   234       Jeong  Man   Hee   20 Student 5'4¾" Mole on tip of chin
                                                      mole on end of ear
 2  2   229       Shuen  Jo          30 Florist 5'3½" Long scar on left lower lid & scar 
                                                      on left forefinger
 3  3   242       Yow    Toy         22 Student 5'4"  Large hairy mole on tip of chin,
 4  4   230       Tam    Shuen       30 Florist 5'2½" Mole lower left lid, Mole on chin 
                                                      three scars on left temple
 5  5   233       Mock   Yu    Joe   43 Showman 5'2¼" Scar behind right ear, mole above left ear
 6  6   251       Owyung Bun         20 Student 5'4"  Scar right eyebrow outer end, Small scar above right ear
 7  7   232       Leung  Yuen        23 Artist  5'1¼" Long scar behind neck, Scar 1 inch above left ear
                                                      Faint scar near right corner of mouth, 
 8  8   243       Yung   Yot   Lai   30 Student 5'4½" Faint mole lower tip left ear.                                                    Faint mole lower tip left ear.
 9  9   236       Jew    Hew   Fun   44 Florist 5'5¼" Scar front l. ear, small scar left temple
10  10  241       Jew    Fui Tin Foo 46 Florist 5'4½" Scar on left temple. receeding chin
11  11  244       Yun    Sam         38 Florist 5'6½" Faint mole front r. nostril, scar back left hand
12  12  238       Jew    Quin  Wah   43 Florist 5' ¼" Faint mole right cheek small raised scar front throat
13  13  248       Chun   Yip   Jung  28 Student 5'7½" Right hand small finger deformed.
14  14  240       Lum    See         21 Student 5'2¾" Big scar center forehead, mole behind L ear
15  15  255       Jay    Chan  Hoy   44 Clerk   5'8½" Large dark brown spot left temple 
                                                      several smaller ones all over face
16  16  237       Jeong  That  Chung 30 Student 5'3"  Small pock mark inner end each eyebrow, 
                                                      small notch in rim of R ear near top
17  17  254       Ng     Wai   Jun   23 Student 5'5¾" small mole front throat ? on L     
18  18  246       Law    Hoy   Jun   34 Clerk   5'4½" Long scar under right jaw, scar outer ? L ear      
19  19  252       Wong   Lai   Moy   35 Showman 5'5¾" Mole outer end right eyebrow. Notch outer rim l. ear       
20  20  245       Mar    Siu   Chow  39 Showman 5'1½" Mole tip, chin. Mole rim left ear  
21  21  239       Son    Jay   Sang  22 Student 5'4¼" Faint scar outer end L eyebrow, Black mole under R ear     
22  22  247       Owyung Con         20 Student 5'4½" Long scar crown of head Mole rim right ear 
23  23  249       Owyung Choy        38 Showman 5'6"  Broad face high cheekbones 
24  24  250       Lum    Yow         34 Showman 5'5"  Left ear pierced Two faint scars L corner mouth
25  25  253       Owyung Tim         22 Showman 5'4¼" Left ear pierced                                                     
                                                      Faint scar R side of neck, small Warty Mole 2" behind ear, L ear pierced   
26  26  257       Wong   Hung  Wai   42 Showman 5'3½" Warty growth on R upper eyelid, Lopped tip L index finger  
27  27  258       Chun   Ping        29 Showman 5'3½" Small scar crown of head, Faint linear scar above R ear    
28  28  256       Sone   Yick  Wah   25 Showman 5'4"  Faint scar cheek bone 1 brown scar ? from R angle of mouth 
29  29  231       Hyng   Gon         41 Florist 5'2½" Mole inch above L eyebrow. Mole L jaw      
30  30  235       Sin    Kum   Yung  18 Student 5'1"  Big scar behind neck, Light scar above L eyebrow
         
31* 1   Dec 15-92 Chan   Hoy         36 Grocer   Refused Habeas Corpus USDC Case 10?03   
32  7   Oct 7-93  Lam    Foot        30 Grocer   Landed  28-Feb  Affdt merchant
33* 8             Wong   Choy        20          Landed  28-Feb  Affdt merchant
34  10  Oct 1-89  Chew   Cheek       23 Grocer   Landed  28-Feb  Native born
35* 9             Yip    See         25          Landed  1-Mar   Affdt merchant
36  11  Sep 11-93 Fong   Wing        52 Grocer   Landed  28-Feb  Affdt merchant
37  460 Mar 21-92 Charly Chong Kow   45 Grocer   Landed  28-Feb  Affdt merchant
                   
                    For Havana

38  2             Mah    Man   Fat   32 Grocer   Landed  "I.T." Transit List 3355
39  3             Mah    Ying  Choy  40 Grocer   Landed  "I.T." Transit List 3356        
40  4             Mah    Fong  Hing  25 Grocer   Landed  "I.T." Transit List 3357        
41  5             Mah    Choy  You   40 Grocer   Landed  "I.T." Transit List 3358        
42  6             Mah    Mil   Luze  40 Grocer   Landed  "I.T." Transit List 3359        
43  12            Chue   Lock        35 Grocer   Landed  "I.T." Transit List 3360        
44  13            Wan    Choy        28 Grocer   Landed  "I.T." Transit List 3361        

        For San Francisco  35 males & 2 females
        For Havana          7


Transcriber's 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). Many of these passengers have a place name written over 
 the stamp. Where a blank is transcribed in this column no place has been written in.  Where 
 there is a question mark the entry is illegible.
 
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).

For passengers bound for a further port there are two possible dispositions:
  Landed "I.T." Transit List followed by a number
  Departed Per Steamer ______ (name of ship) _________ (date)

Last Place of Residence is provided only for passengers 1-30.  It is Canton for all but
 passenger 3 who is from Heung Shan.

The information collected from Mid Winter Fair visitors and immigrants differs from that 
 collected for others.  Information that physically describes is collected for visitors 
 (Height, Physical marks, etc) but not for immigrants.  If accredited oficers of Chinese 
 Government is collected only for  immigrants.

There are no entries for Complexion and Color of Eyes.

The Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification column is difficult 
 to read and some entries are written on more than one line.  It is not possible to
 be absolutely sure which lines apply to which passenger so they are transcribed on the 
 lines as they were written, with the transcriber's best estimate of passenger assignment.


1-30 are joined by a bracket and the notation: These 30 Chinese for the Mid-Winter Fair 
      landed Mar 7th/94 by Insp O'Leary under instruction from Collector Wise.
31 The USDC Case number could be 10903.
33 is to join  husband.
35 is to join  husband.