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R.M.S China
Liverpool, England to New York
26 March 1868
DISTRICT OF NEW YORK - PORT OF NEW YORK
I, (blank), Master of the R.M.S "China", do solemnly,
sincerely, and truly swear that the following List or Manifest, subscribed by
me, and now delivered by me to the Collector of the Customs of the Collection
District of New York, is a full and perfect List of all the Passengers taken
on board the said R.M.S "China" at Liverpool from which Port the said
"China" has now arrived; and that on said List is truly designated the age,
the sex, and the occupation of each of said passengers, the part of the vessel
occupied by each during the passage, the country to which each belongs, and
also the country of which it is intended by each to become an inhabitant; and
that said List or Manifest truly sets forth the number of said Passengers who
have died on said Voyage, and the names and ages of those who died.
So
help me God. (blank)
Sworn to, this March 26th 1868,
Before me. (blank)
List or Manifest of ALL THE PASSENGERS taken on board the R.M.S "China"
whereof John A. Martyn is Master, from Liverpool, burthen One Thousand Five
Hundred and Thirty Nine tons.
Columns represent: given name and surname, age, sex, occupation,
the country to which they severally belong, the country of which they intend
to become inhabitants, and part of the vessel occupied during the voyage.
Since no one died during the voyage, this column is omitted in this
transcription.
1 James Ogilvy 45 Male Butler Scotland Gt Britain Cabin
2 Patrick Power 32 Male Merchant Ireland Ireland Cabin
3 John Stewart 23 Male Merchant Gt Britain Gt Britain Cabin
4 Annie E Stewart 26 Female Spinster Gt Britain Gt Britain Cabin
5 Nathaniel C Kinney 31 Male Gentleman U States U States Cabin
6 Walter Barrow 35 Male Merchant England England Cabin
7 John Barrow 30 Male Merchant England England Cabin
8 William Cox 45 Male Gentleman U States U States Cabin
9* Leapld Eidlitz 46 Male Gentleman U States U States Cabin
10 Rufus Waterhouse 26 Male Merchant U States U States Cabin
11 Henry W. Lord 47 Male US Consul U States U States Cabin
12 James C Elliott 37 Male Merchant Nova Scotia Nova Scotia Cabin
13 Thomas Armstron 30 Male Merchant Ireland U States Cabin
14 Arthur E. Jones 21 Male Gentleman U States U States Cabin
15* C S Schlinghast 28 Male Gentleman U States U States Cabin
16 Alexander K Cogswell 28 Male Gentleman U States U States Cabin
17 Ann Cogswell 25 Female Wife U States U States Cabin
18 Alfred Henderson 35 Male Gentleman England England Cabin
19 Hannah Blackburn 30 Female Spinster England England Cabin
20 John Holland 38 Male Merchant Ireland Ireland Cabin
21 Nicholas F. Fiedji 48 Male Gentleman Germany Valparisia Cabin
22 Hermania Flindt 23 Female Spinster Germany Germany Cabin
23 Rodolph Rodiger 31 Male Banker U States U States Cabin
24 George Adiorne 53 Male Gentleman U States U States Cabin
25 James Carlinot 43 Male Gentleman France France Cabin
26 Edmond J Pike 30 Male Ship Master U States U States Cabin
27 John McDonald 33 Male Merchant Nova Scotia Nova Scotia Cabin
28* Joseph Barker 36 Male Assesser U States U States Cabin
29 Thomas C. Parker 51 Male Merchant England England Cabin
30* Benjamin S. Bradley 58 Male Manufact. U States U States Cabin
31* William Bradley 22 Male Manufact. U States U States Cabin
32 Thomas Edgerton 24 Male Gentleman England England Cabin
Total 32 Passengers
of whom 29 have been in the State of New York before
3 have not been in the State of New York before
Total as above 32
Transcriber's Notes:
A question mark (?) indicates a letter or a number that can not be transcribed
definitely.
An asterisk (*) indicates either difficulty in deciphering the handwriting of
the manifest or something in the Transcriber's Notes to which the reader should
refer.
The transcriber numbers the passengers consecutively, even though they are not
numbered in the original manifest.
9 Surname appears to be either "Eidlitz" or "Edlitz".
15 Given name is "Crawford". Surname is possibly "Schlinghast" or
"Sillinghast".
28 The writing is very faint and difficult to decipher with certainty, but it
appears that the passenger's full Occupation is recorded as "Assesser of
Revenue".
30-31 Full Occupation is recorded as "Woolen Manufact.".
Correspondence 10/04/2004 passenger #9 Eidlitz
Leopold Eidlitz was born in Prague in 1823 and died in New York City in
1908. He came to the United States in 1843 after training in Vienna as a
land manager, a position in which he would have worked for the Austrian
government as a building inspector or designer of small, rural
structures. He arrived alone, and within three years, moved from a job
with Richard Upjohn, the English-born designer of Trinity Church, Wall
Street, into his own practice. Shortly after, he married into an old New
England family and pursued a career in which he worked with the most
prominent members of his profession and the New York City and State
political community. Montgomery Schuyler, his friend and biographer,
described Eidlitz's work as "..not merely a capricious preference for
medieval over classic architectural forms, but a rationalization of
architectural form in general, that it should express and conform to the
mechanical facts of a structure; and the works which manifest this purpose
manifest also a powerful artistic individuality."[i] Eidlitz
simultaneously acclimated himself to American society and culture and
advanced his career by speaking at public and private meetings and
publishing essays in art, architecture, and real estate journals of local,
regional, national, and international significance. His articles were
among the first architectural criticism and theory published in the United
States, and they exerted a strong and widely acknowledged influence on his
contemporaries.
NOTES:
[i] "Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz," Architectural Record, vol. 5, no. 4 (August
1896), p. 413.
Contributed by Ken Jacobs
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 292, List 220.
Transcribed by Phil Buckley
a member of
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29 December 2003
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