Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS City of Rio de Janeiro

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. City of Rio de Janeiro, sailing from Hong Kong Aug 17th, 1895 arriving at Port of San Francisco, Sept 18, 1895.

Columns represent: Number, Name, Age, Married or Single*, Occupation, Able to Read & Write, Nationality, Last Residence, Whether having a ticket to final destination, Whether in Possession of Money-if less than $30, how much?, Whether ever before in the US

 1* Low Choy Foong       21y5m Yes Merchant y Corean   Corea         yes $1000 No
 2* Cheong Tyr Chun      36y4m Yes Merchant n Corean   Corea         yes 2000  No
 3* Hong Kam Sun         41y6m Yes Merchant n Corean   San Francisco yes 1000  yes

       sailing from Yokohama Aug 27, 1895

 4  Tomakichi  Kawano    25y0m No  Student  y Japanese Hokaido       yes 40    No
 5* Toranosuke Mori      29y7m No  Student  y Japanese Wakayama      No  35    No
 6* Tsunjiro   Ikida     24y2m No  Student  y Japanese Fukoki        yes 30    yes
 7  Washiro    Maki      22y8m No  Student  y Japanese Yamanishi     yes 40    No
 8  Gaokichi   Fujimoto  39y0m No  Student  y Japanese Kumamoto      yes 30    No
 9  Tokujero   Hondo     23y4m No  Student  y Japanese Kumamoto      yes 30    No
10  Izo        Kikugawa  43y6m No  Student  y Japanese Kumamoto      yes       No
11  Gisuke     Watanabe  49y7m Yes Student  y Japanese Kanagawa      yes 50    No
12  Yoshitaro  Isogai    30y3m No  Student  y Japanese Gumma         yes 40    No
13  Kameo      Kojima    28y7m Yes Student  y Japanese Okayama       yes 40    No
14  Nobutaro   Fukushima 32y6m No  Student  y Japanese Tokyo         yes 35    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:
 Sex=Male
 Seaport for Landing in the US=San Francisco
 Final Destination in the US=San Francisco
 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:
1-3 Most of the lists on this film have the names written first name first.  
    There is no indication here which is the surname of these passengers.
3   has been to San Francisco 2 years ago.
5   Vancouver is written in the Final Destination column and crossed out.
6   has been to San Francisco once Sept/94.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M1410, Reel 1, Vol 3, Page 147,149.