Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS Gaelic

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. Gaelic, sailing from Yokohama June 29th, 1895 arriving at Port of San Francisco, July 12, 1895.

Columns represent: Number, Name, Age, Sex, Married or Single*, Occupation, 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 columns.

  
 1* ?tsukichi  Ishii      20yy6m Male   no  Student   Tokyo     San Francisco yes 50 No  No
 2* ?ojiro     Asaba      39y2m  Male   yes Student   Kanagawa  San Francisco yes 30 No  No
 3* ?orakichi  Juyo       20y5m  Male   no  Student   Wakayama  Vancouver     no  34 No  No
 4* ?aihei     Kuono      16y5m  Male   no  Student   Wakayama  Vancouver     yes 38 No  No
 5* ?hinsei    Arase      20y10m Male   no  Student   Kumamoto  San Francisco yes 31 yes No
 6* H?zo       Sugasawara 43y1m  Male   yes Washerman Chiba     San Francisco yes 30 No  No
 7  Guidei     Sugiyama   19y6m  Male   no  Student   Aichi     Tacoma        no  43 No  No
 8  Tokumatsu  Shindo     14y8m  Male   no  Student   Hiroshima San Francisco yes 30 No  No
 9* Akisahuro  Shindo     31y10m Male   yes Merchant  Hiroshima San Francisco yes 30 yes No
10  Shinematsu Hayashi    27y5m  Male   yes Student   Chiba     San Francisco yes 30 No  No
11* ?ichinojo  Takaheshi  26y4m  Male   yes Student   Chiba     San Francisco yes 30 No  No
12* Kameta     Kina       31y1m  Female yes wife      Kanagawa  San Francisco yes 65 No  yes
13  Jayjiro    Sudzuki    29y10m Male   yes Student   Kanagawa  San Francisco yes 30 No  No
14* Tennejiro  Tagid?     37y1m  Male   yes Student   Kanagawa  San Francisco yes 30 No  No
15  Matsukichi Moi        21y3m  Male   no  Student   Tochigi   San Francisco yes 30 No  No
16* Hanekichi  Takemura   27y4m  Male   no  Student   Shizuoka  San Francisco yes 60 yes No
17  Nihei      Sugiyama   26y8m  Male   no  Student   Shizuoka  San Francisco yes 30 No  No
18  Loso       Takemura   20y7m  Male   no  Student   Shizuoka  San Francisco yes 30 No  No
19  Hikotaro   Masuda     21y4m  Male   no  Student   Shizuoka  San Francisco yes 30 No  No
20  Aizo       Yamada     19y5m  Male   no  Student   Hokkaido  Philadelphia  no  30 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 heading "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 
 Nationality=Japanese
 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 ?.  The 
 right edge of the manifest is folded or slipped under another paper so that 
 the initial letters of several names are obscured. (1-5, 11)

Passenger Notes:
5  has been to San Francisco March, 1895.
6  first name is Herzo or Huzo.
9  has been to San Francisco 3 times.
12 is going to join husband Kameta Tozo 824 Sacramento St. San Francisco.  It 
   would appear, therefore, that her first and last names are reversed on the
   list.
14 surname is Tagedu, Tagedei, or Tagedii.
16 has been to San Francisco 1892.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M1410, Reel 1, Vol 3, Page 121.