Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS Umatilla

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 Umatilla, sailing from Victoria, B.C., Apr 3, 1894 arriving at Port of San Francisco, Apr 6, 1894.

Columns represent: Number, Name, Age, Sex, Married or Single, Occupation, Able to Read & Write, Nationality, Last Residence, Seaport for Landing in the US, 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, Whether ever in Prison, Almshouse or supported by Charity, Whether a Polygamist, Whether under contract to labor in the US, Condition of Health Mental and Physical, Whether having any deformities

  
1 Israel Edises, 44, male, Married, upholsterer, can read & write, Russian, 
  Winnepeg, San Fran, San Fran, has ticket, himself, over $30, No, No, No, No, No, 
  Good, No	
2 wife
3 boy                                     
    
Transcriber's Notes:
There is no captain's statement nor captain's name attached to this manifest.
There is a single line of entry that lists the passenger,(by name) wife & boy 
(without names).
Although only three people are listed, below the entry there is scribbled in 
another hand "family of six."

Correspondence 03/23/2004 passengers Edises
The following is my gg grandfather.  He settled in San Francisco.  Many 
of his decendents live there today.  
 
Israel changed his name to Isadore and opened a mattress shop called 
"cheapside mattresses" in the city.  You can find references on line in 
published "yellow pages" of the day.  Israel had a wife born Brahna Cecil Hendler.  
The children were Mildred, Belle, Edward, Ada, & Paul (my G Grandfather).
Paul Edises

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M1410, Reel 1, Vol 2, Page 49.