SS Coptic
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. Coptic, sailing from Hong Kong Dec 27th, 1895 arriving at Port of San Francisco, Jan 21, 1896.
Columns represent: Number, Name, Age, 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?
1* Ernst Bergendorff 23y Naturalist Swede Peleu New York No more
sailing from Yokohama Jany 5th, 1895*
2 John G Savage 24y11m Tourist English New Zealand New York No 200
3 Kamataro Morihira 25y2m Student Japanese Tokushima San Francisco Yes 35
4 Rinjiro Oshita 22y1m Student Japanese Kanagawa San Francisco Yes 40
5* Shiz?o Kobayashi 19y5m Student Japanese Shidznoka San Francisco Yes 35
Transcriber's Notes:
There is no captain's statement nor captain's name attached to this manifest.
The departure from Yokohama is erroneously listed as 1895. Arrival, on the
same line, is 1896 and departure from Hong Kong is Dec 1895.
The following columns had identical entries for all passengers and so were not included in
the table:
Sex=Male
Married or Single=Single
Able to Read & Write=yes
Seaport for Landing in the US=San Francisco
By whom was passage paid?=self
Whether ever before in the US=No
Whether going to join Relative or Friend=No
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:
1 Last Residence is Peleu South Seas.
5 first name is Shiznuo, Shiznno, or Shizmio.
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M1410, Reel 1, Vol 3, Page 188,196.
Transcribed by Fran Taylor, a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild27 August 2001
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