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 Jany 25, 1896 arriving at Port of San Francisco, Feb 7th, 1896.

Columns represent: Number, Name, Age, Sex, Married or Single*, Occupation, Last Residence, Whether in Possession of Money-if less than $30, how much?, Whether ever before in the US

  
 1  Tojiro      Kurokawa  25y10m  Male    No   Student   Tochigi    30    No
 2  Miss Kubota Ino       21y7m   Female  No   Student   Chiba      30    No
 3  Fujiro      Kato      21y0m   Male    No   Student   Aichi      $100  No
 4  Tatsujiro   Akimoto   25y9m   Male    No   Student   Kumamoto   80    No
 5  Seikitaro   Hino      15y3m   Male    No   Student   Ehime      50    No
 6  Suisai      Isobe     38y11m  Male    Yes  Merchant  Shidzuoka  300   No
 7* Shoji       Isobe     9y10m   Male    No   Student   Shidzuoka        No
 8* Jyuzo       Yamamoto  38y6m   Male    Yes  Merchant  Chiba      50    yes 
 9* Mrs         Yamamoto  28y4m   Female  Yes  wife      Chiba      60    No
10  J?yemon     Kozawa    21y0m   Male    No   Student   Kanagawa   30    No
11  Kumazo      Mikami    28y0m   Male    No   Student   Tokyo      30    No
    

Transcriber's Notes:

In the married or Single column "or Single" is crossed out.

There is no captain's statement nor captain's name attached to this manifest.

The following columns had identical entries for all passengers and so were not 
included in the table:
 Nationality=Japanese
 Able to Read & Write=yes 
 Seaport for Landing in the US=San Francisco  
 Final Destination in the US=San Francisco
 Whether having a ticket to final destination=yes
 By whom was passage paid?=self 
 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:
7  "(son)" is written after name.  His passage was paid by his father S Isobe.
8  has been to San Francisco once Aug 1895.
9 "(wife)" is written after name.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M1410, Reel 1, Vol 3, Page 209.