Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS Oceanic

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 OceanicOceanic, sailing from Yokohama, Sept 15, 1893 and Honolulu September 26, 1893 arriving at Port of San Francisco, October 4, 1893.

Columns represent: Number, Name, Age, Sex, Married or Single, Occupation, Able to Read & Write, Nationality, Last Residence, Final Destination in the US, Whether having a ticket to final destination, By whom was passage paid?, Whether in Possession of Money-if less than $30, how much?, Whether ever before in the US, Whether going to join Relative or Friend

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1  Yasmioshi    Yokoyama   27y2m  male   single  Merchant   yes Japanese   Tokyo        New York*      No  himself     yes  No   No
2  Tomaije      Komai      23y4m  female married maid*      yes Japanese   Omi          Chicago        No  Miss Reziar no   yes  No
3  Tomikichi    Yajima     40y10m male   married Student    yes Japanese   Kanagawa     San Francisco  yes himself     $15  yes* No
4  Kanejiro     Waku       33y7m  male   married Merchant   yes Japanese   Kanagawa     San Francisco  yes himself     yes  yes* No
5  Andrew Peter Tjilstrom  29y5m  male   single  Missionary yes Swede      Wooching     New York*      No  himself     yes  No   No
6  Chiuki       Urakawa    24y10m male   married Student    yes Japanese   Nagasaki     Fresno, Cal    No  himself     yes  No   No
7  Kojiro       Shib?ya    38y2m  male   married Merchant   yes Japanese   Nagasaki     San Francisco  yes himself     yes  No   No
8  Chugoro      Tsurutani  25y3m  male   single  Merchant   yes Japanese   Kioto        Los Angeles    No  himself     yes  yes* No
9  Uichi        Shigemura  21y    male   single  Student    yes Japanese   Yamagushi    San Francisco  yes himself     yes  No   No
10 Hatsuo       Nakamura   25y1m  male   single  Student    yes Japanese   Tokyo        San Francisco  yes himself     yes  yes* No
11 Oswald       Gruttner   22y1m  male   single  Clerk      yes German     Berlin       Redding, Cal   No  himself     yes  No   yes*
12 Max          Weigele    21y    male   single  Clerk      yes German     Berlin       Redding, Cal   No  himself     yes  No   No
13 Teisuke      Inukai*    21y5m  male   married Merchant   yes Japanese   Okayama      San Francisco  yes himself     yes  No   yes*
14 Yuzaemon     Yamarichi  40y    male   married Student    yes Japanese   Aichi        San Francisco  yes himself     yes  No   No
15 Yojiro       Mizuno     21y3m  male   single  Merchant   yes Japanese   Aichi        San Francisco  yes himself     yes  No   No
16 Yoshitaro    Surumi     15y5m  male   single  Student    yes Japanese   Aichi        San Francisco  yes himself     yes  No   No
17 Masataro     Sasaki     27y10m male   single  Merchant   yes Japanese   Tokushima    San Francisco  yes himself     yes  No   No
18 Tokijiro     Hattori    22y4m  male   single  Student    yes Japanese   Aichi        San Francisco  yes himself     yes  No   No
19 Shoroku      Hattori    16y7m  male   single  Student    yes Japanese   Aichi        San Francisco  yes himself     yes  No   No
20 Chiyotani    Shisosaki  16y4m  male   single  Student    yes Japanese   Wakayama     San Francisco  yes himself     yes  No   No
21 Seichiro     Saiga      16y7m  male   single  Student    yes Japanese   Wakayama     San Francisco  yes himself     yes  No   No
22 Jinsiosuke   Degushi    17y1m  male   single  Student    yes Japanese   Wakayama     San Francisco  yes himself     yes  No   No
23 Hama?ge*     Kono       18y6m  female married wife*      yes Japanese   Fukuoka      *              yes herself     yes  No   yes*

                                sailing from Honolulu                                                                                   
24 Ernesto      de Freitas 24y    male   married Laborer    no  Portuguese Lihue Kauai San Francisco   yes himself     $40  yes* yes*
25 ? Edw        Greenfield 17y7m  male   single  Student    yes English    Honokaa*    San Rafael Cala no  himself     $25* yes* yes*
26 ? Edgar      Greenfield 16y4m  male   single  Student    yes English    Honokaa*    San Rafael Cala no  himself     *    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:
 Seaport for Landing in the US=San Francisco
 Whether ever in Prison, Almshouse or supported by Charity=no
 Whether a Polygamist=no
 Whether under contract to labor in the US=no
 Condition of Health Mental and Physical=good
 Whether having any deformities=no 
Letters that are illegible or difficult to interpret are replaced by ?.

1  final destination is New York en route to London
2  occupation is maid Miss Rezear or Reziar.  Passage was paid by Miss Reziar
3  has been to the US twice April 1893-1889 
4  has been to San Francisco some years ago
5  final destination is New York en route to Europe
7  missing letter in surname is "a" or "u"
8  has been to San Francisco "5 years" (probably 5 years ago)
10 has been to San Francisco 1892
11 is going to join his uncle D Griettner, or Grietther Redding Cal  
13 is going to join brother S Inukai 1237 Geary St San Francisco.  There 
    is a note beside this entry, in another hand, that says "went ashore 
    at Honolulu."
23 missing letter in first name is "a" or "n."  Her occupation is "wife to M 
    Kono."  Her final destination is "to join her husband."  She is going to 
    join husband M Kono San Francisco
24 was in Oakland and San Francisco 1891-92.  He is going to join "my parents
    Bose de Freitas & Lucretia de Freitas, Oakland."
25, 26 "we went to school in San Rafael  from 1891/9?"  We will join the 
     Technical Prep School in San Rafael where we have been before."  Their 
     Last Residence is Honokaa, Hawaii

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M1410, Reel 1 Pages 95-96.

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