Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS Nanyo Maru

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.

SS Nanyo Maru, sailing from Kobe, 16th November, 1899, arriving at Port of Seattle, Wash, 10th March, 1900.

Columns represent: Name in full (surname first); age -- year, months; sex; married or single; calling or occupation; last residence; final destination in the United States (state, city, or town); whether in possession of money and if so, whether more than $30, and how much if $30 or less; whether ever before in the United States and if so when and where; whether going to join a relative and if so, what relative, their name and address; comments*.

    
 1 Uchida    Shimezo     20 6  male   single  Coolie for railway* Okayama   San Francisco $59.15 no                         no In Hospital at H. Diamond*. Passed Mar 27th 1900
 2 Sugimoto  Kikumatsu   31 2  male   single  wa??er              Hiogo     San Francisco $40    no                         no  
 3 Ota       Mume        34 4  female married wife                Hiogo     San Francisco $30    no                         no
 4 Ota       Kisuke      25 1  male   married male*               Hiogo     San Francisco $30*   no                         no In Hospital. Passed March 27th 1900
 5 Tomita    Yoshihei    21 -  male   married clerk               Kumamoto  San Francisco $57    no                         no
 6 Hokodate  Tomokichi   24 9  male   single  student             Kagoshima San Francisco $40.00 no                         no In hospital. Passed Mar 27th 1900
 7 Fujie     Yoshitaro   34 -  male   single  Coolie for railway* Hiroshima San Francisco $35.00 no                         no In hospital. Passed Mar 27th 1900
 8 Fujie     Seketaro    20 11 male   single  Train laborer       Hiroshima Portland      $31.00 no                         Going to Willow* Oregon
 9 Takahashi Tokusaburo  23 11 male   single  Train laborer       Hiroshima Portland      $37.00 no                         Going to Willowa Oregon
10 Sasaki    Toyojiro    21 11 male   single  cook                Hiogo     Los Gates*    $30    no                         Going to Los Gates* Calif. n??? her* friends
11 Yamaguchi Horchi      15 9  male   single  student             Hiroshima San Francisco $40    no                         Has a brother in Phoenix Arizona
12 Koizumi   Shigeo      14 9  male   single  To learn            Hiroshima San Francisco $60    no                         Has an uncle in San Francisco
13 Funaki    Tadajiro    34 -  male   single  cook                Hiroshima San Francisco $50    Lived in Linden, Cal. 1899 Been in this country 4 yrs.
14 Kuroiwa   Hidekichi   18 10 male   single  To learn            Fukuoka   San Francisco $35    no                         no In hospital at H Diamond. Passed Mar 31st, 1900

Signed M. Lonuta, Master

Transcriber's Notes: 
* indicates an omission or error made by the original recorder.

? indicates a word or letters that could not be read, due to quality of
original document.

The comments column consists of information which was written over other 
columns.

All passengers were able to read and write.  Therefore, these columns were 
eliminated. 

The nationality of all passengers was listed as "Japan."  Therefore, the 
nationality column was eliminated.

In the column entitled "Seaport for landing in the United States," all entries 
stated "Portland."  Therefore, this column was eliminated.  However, please 
note that this list was created at the Port of Seattle, Washington.

All answers were "yes" in the column headed "Whether having a ticket for such 
final destination."  Therefore, this column was eliminated.

All answers were "self" in the column headed "By whom was passage paid?" 
Therefore, this column was eliminated.

All answers were "no" in the column headed "Ever in prison or almshouse or 
supported by charity? (If yes, state which.)"  Therefore, this column was 
eliminated.

All answers were "no" in the column headed "Whether a polygamist." Therefore, 
this column was eliminated.

All answers were "no" in the column headed "Whether under contract, express or 
implied, to labor in the United States."  Therefore, this column was eliminated.

All answers were "healthy" in the column headed "Condition of health, mental and 
physical."  Therefore, this column was eliminated.

All answers were "no" in the column headed "Deformed or crippled.  Nature or 
cause."  Therefore, this column was eliminated.  However, please note that at 
the end of the manifest, the following note was made:  "Goodwin Manifest from 
Kobe.  Arrived Apl 17, 1900.  Total immigs 510, 507 males, 3 females.  Rejected 
one male immig for physical disability."

Passengers 1 and 7 - had the word "Laborer" written over the original entry for 
occupation.

Passenger 2 - the occupation may be washer or waiter.

Passengers 3 and 4 - the amount $30 has a bracket connecting the two, 
suggesting they were together as husband and wife.

Passenger 5 and 11 - the occupation was originally written as "merchant" and 
then scratched out.

Passenger 12 - the word "student" was added to the occupation.  Marital status 
was originally written as married, but then scratched out.

Passenger 13 - there is a ditto mark for marital status.  Unclear whether this 
means "married," as originally written for Passenger 11, or "single," as 
corrected for Passenger 11.

Passenger 14 - marital status is written in as single.

At the bottom of the page is written "Thirty-seven on this manifest of 
passengers on Nanyo Maru arrived at Port of Seattle March 11 and were examined 
and passed March 11, 1900  and 8 more passed Mar. 28 1900," and signed "Chas. 
W. Snyder, Immigrant Inspector."

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M1383, Reel 1.