Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS China

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.

S.S. China, sailing from Yokohama July 20th, 1895 arriving at Port of San Francisco, Aug 1, 1895.

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

Please scroll to view all the columns.

 1  Teizo        Kamai       24y0m  M N Student   Japanese Hiyogo      Des Moines yes Yes    No  No
 2* Bunzo        Hasegawa    30y1m  M Y Innkeeper Japanese Kanagawa    San Fran   yes 25     yes No
 3* Thomas Smith Reid        35y4m  M N Sailor    Scotch   Kobe        San Fran   yes $20    yes No
 4  Bosurin      Dobrinin    27y0m  M N Merchant  Russian  Vladivostok New York   No  $100   No  No
 5* Mrs Vera     Melnekoff   32y0m  F Y Teacher   Russian  Vladivostok New York   No  $100   No  yes
 6  Hisamatsu    Chino       31y9m  M Y Student   Japanese Wakeyama    San Fran   yes 32     No  No
 7  Kaminosuke   Hatakenaka  24y1m  M N Student   Japanese Wakeyama    San Fran   yes $36    No  No
 8  Kamanosuke   Kanda       34y10m M Y Student   Japanese Wakeyama    San Fran   yes $24    No  No
 9  Ichitaro     Higashibata 25y4m  M N Student   Japanese Wakeyama    San Fran   yes 30     No  No
10  Riosuke      Okada       20y7m  M N Student   Japanese Aichi       San Fran   yes 47     No  No
11  Sukekichi    Yoshimine   22y0m  M N Student   Japanese Kagoshima   Vancouver  yes        No  No
12  Nasaoke      Orikawa     23y9m  M N Student   Japanese Kagoshima   San Fran   yes        No  No
13  Sugekichi    Yamamoto    16y9m  M N Student   Japanese Aichi       San Fran   yes $37.60 No  No
14  Soichiro     Okada       13y10m M N Student   Japanese Aichi       San Fran   yes 32.30  No  NO
15  Kookich??    Takehashi   17y5m  M N Student   Japanese Shiga       San Fran   yes $35    No  No
16  Tsunekichi   Soga        32y7m  M Y Student   Japanese Kanagawa    San Fran   yes        No  No
17* Shigetomo    Hirose      29y9m  M N Student   Japanese Ishakawa    San Fran   yes $50    yes No
18  Shimosuke    Kuroda      21y5m  M N Student   Japanese Kioto       San Fran   yes $35    No  No
19  Tsunekichi   Makino      26y1m  M N Student   Japanese Osaka       San Fran   yes $40    No  No


Transcriber's Notes:

There is no captain's statement nor captain's name attached to this manifest.
In the Married or Single column "or Single" has been crossed out.
The following columns had identical entries for all passengers and so were not 
included in the table:
 Able to Read & Write=yes
 Seaport for Landing in the US=San Francisco
 By whom was passage paid?=self
 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 ?.

Passenger Notes:
 2  has been to San Francisco once 1895.
 3  has been to Philadlephia 1894.
 5  is going to join Brother Sister New York N.Y.  There probably is an address
    here but it is too faint to be read clearly (13 Fru?tem).
17  has been to San Francisco once 1894.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M1410, Reel 1, Vol 3, Page 134.