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SS Belgic
I, Wm H Walker, Master of the SS Belgic 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 San Francisco, is a full and perfect list of all Chinese passengers taken on board the said vessel at Hong Kong and Yokohama from which port said vessel has now arrived, or that have been taken on board the said vessel at any foreign port or place, and of all such passengers now on board said vessel, and that on said List is truly designated the names and other particulars, as shown by their respective certificates.So help me God. (signature) Wm H Walker
Sworn to this 7 day of Dec 1891, before me, (signature) John M Dare, Deputy Collector of Customs
Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the SS Belgic whereof Wm H Walker is Master, from Hong Kong, burthen 2695 tons
Columns represent: Number, No of Ticket, No of Certificate, Name, Age, Occupation*, Last Place of Residence*, Height*, Complexion*, Color of Eyes*, Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification*, Bond No, If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts.
Custom House Certificates
1* 4 775 Chang Chew 41 San Francisco Landed ? 225 Affdt Mcht
2* 25 1008 Ho Yick Kee 39 San Francisco Landed ? 227 Affdt Mcht
Chinese Ministers Passport
3* 47 20 Kwan Sing 21 China Landed 7-Dec Servant
4* 2771 ? Tsoong Kia ?en 21 China Landed 9-Dec Student
Merchant's Certificates
5 1 10/4/91 Ly Wing 35 San Francisco Landed 7-Dec 228 Affdt Mcht
6 2 12//5/91 Quan Yuen 42 San Francisco Landed 7-Dec 232 Affdt Mcht
7 3 13/2/91 Quan Lum 35 San Francisco Landed 7-Dec 231 Affdt Mcht
8 5 14/4/90 Woo Hop Sing 31 Peoria Ill Landed 9-Dec 241 Affdt Mcht
9 6 1/4/91 Woo Go 48 Carle? Nev Landed 9-Dec 240 Affdt Mcht
10 7 12/2/91 Yue Moo 28 San Francisco Landed 7-Dec 233 Affdt Mcht
11 8 1/10/89 Choy Kee 34 San Francisco Landed 12-Dec 2?? Affdt Mcht
12 14 3/9/90 Chin Ming Yut 37 McCork Neb Landed 9-Dec 245 Affdt Mcht
13 15 24/7/91 Lew Kee Chun 29 Ogden Utah Landed 9-Dec 256 Affdt Mcht
14 26 13/12/90 Lum Sing Nam 48 San B??? Landed 7-Dec ? Affdt Mcht
15 32 17/10/90 Yue Chan 26 San Francisco Landed 15-Dec 252 Affdt Mcht
16 33 11/11/90 Yue Wing Sow 21 San Francisco Landed 15-Dec 245 Editor
17 34 11/11/90 Yue Long 27 Denver Landed 15-Dec 244 Affdt Mcht
18 35 7/3/91 Chaw Sing 36 Sacramento Landed 7-Dec 224 Affdt Mcht
19 36 3/1/88 Lee Yick Sing 43 Cottonwood Cal Refused Dep per SS Belgic
20 37 3/2/91 Lee Yuen 20 San Francisco Landed 16-Dec 244 Affdt Mcht
21 41 2/5/90 Lee Chow 21 San Francisco Landed 15-Dec 247 Affdt Mcht
22 42 24/12/89 Mar Chaw Fong 42 Auburn Landed 7-Dec 242 Affdt Mcht
23 43 26/11/90 Mar Sung 20 San Francisco Landed 15-Dec 253 Affdt Mcht
24 44 18/2/91 Yin Lee 38 Columbus O Landed 16-Dec 254 Affdt Mcht
25 45 29/9/90 Cheong Ching 43 San Francisco Landed ? 246 Affdt Mcht
26 40 30/8/90 Ng Chin 25 San Francisco Landed 7-Dec 235 Affdt Mcht
27 48 4/12/90 Wong Chai Loy 26 San Francisco Landed 8-Dec 238 Affdt Mcht
28 49 29/7/90 Yue Kwock Fun 22 San Francisco Landed ? 234 Affdt Mcht
29 50 14/10/89 Yue Chun 34 Helena Mont Landed ? ? Affdt Mcht
30 51 10/11/90 Yue Ching Kee 29 Pueblo Col Landed 11-Dec ? Affdt Mcht
31 52 10/11/90 Yue Sing Hing 25 Pueblo Col Landed ? ? Affdt Mcht
32 56 20/1/89 Go Po 37 San Francisco Landed ?-Dec 254 Affdt Mcht
33* 29/1/91 Juy Yew 48 San Francisco Landed ? 226 Affdt Mcht
Havana
34* 9 Wong Yue 33 Landed I.T. Transit Cert
35* 10 Wong Ying 27 Landed I.T. Transit Cert
36* 11 Wong Fye 20 Landed I.T. Transit Cert
37* 12 Chang Nam 31 Landed I.T. Transit Cert
38* 13 Wong Lung 26 Landed I.T. Transit Cert
39* 31 Wong Kit 25 Landed I.T. Transit Cert
40* 39 Chim Kit 30 Landed I.T. Transit Cert
41* 40 Wong Kong 22 Landed I.T. Transit Cert
Punta Arenas*
42 19 Chang Chong Wing 31 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 819
43 20 Ng Won 17 Departed per City of Sydney Dec 12, 1891
Panama
44 16 Kwan Wai 25 Departed per City of Sydney Dec 12, 1891
45 17 Lum Po 20 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 822
46 18 Low Chung 24 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 821
47 21 Yue Yick 25 Departed per City of Sydney Dec 12, 1891
48 22 Chue Chuck 30 Departed per City of Sydney Dec 12, 1891
49 23 Ng Chow 24 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 823
50 24 Wan Wai 25 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 833
51 27 Tam Mo Son 24 Departed per City of Sydney Dec 12, 1891
52 28 Tam Kwan Chung 28 Departed per City of Sydney Dec 12, 1891
53 29 Mar Lung 42 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 820
54 30 Mar Pong 18 Departed per City of Sydney Dec 12, 1891
55 38 Poon Kai 40 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 832
56 53 Pong Lye Hoon 32 Departed per City of Sydney Dec 12, 1891
57 54 Pong Kwock 22 Departed per City of Sydney Dec 12, 1891
58 55 Pong Chung 23 Departed per City of Sydney Dec 12, 1891
Recapitulation Men
Custom House Certificate 2
Government passport 1
Minister's passport 1
Merchant's certificates 29
San Francisco 33
Havana 8
Punta Arenas 2
Panama 15
Total 58
Transcriber's Notes:
* An asterisk indicates an error on the part of the original recorder not the transcriber,
or is used to call attention to additional information in the transcriber notes.
Question marks replace illegible information or letters.
The pages on this film are not numbered so finding a particular ship can be difficult.
However, there is a system of numbering the manifests that is a part of the National
Archives file system on Chinese persons. These numbers are included in the identification
of the film and reel numbers below.
For passengers bound for San Francisco, passengers' names and ages are followed by a stamp
that varies depending on the disposition of the passenger.
Passengers allowed to land have the following stamp:
Landed Collectors order (blank with a month and day date written in) 1891 by Insp's (blank
for a name, in this case Grant).
Passengers not allowed to land have one of two different stamps:
Landing Refused Habeas Corpus U.S.D.C. Case followed by a number. These passengers were
probably allowed to land, but not to freely enter the country. The National Archives
should have a file for these passengers describing what happened to them.
Landing Refused Departed Per Steamer ______ (name of ship) _________ (date).
For passengers bound for a further port there are two possible dispositions:
Landed "I.T." Transit List followed by a number
Departed Per Steamer ______ (name of ship) _________ (date)
The following columns had no entries and are not included in the table:
Height
Complexion
Color of Eyes
Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification
Occupation is Merchant for all passengers except as noted below.
Last Place of Residence is completed only for San Francisco passengers.
Punta Arenas is on the Strait of Magellan in Chile, but there is a Puntarenas
on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.
According to the National Archives branch in San Bruno, California it is possible that they have
some information on any Chinese passenger who arrived in San Francisco after 1886.
1 Scar corner of right eye.
2 Scar on left cheek and right eyelid.
3 Last column says "Servant of Attache at Washington DC." He has a passport, probably
Minister's passport, but the information is obscured by the stamp.
4 Occupation is Student. Third name could be Sen. He has a government passport.
33 Purser is written in the No of Ticket column.
34-41 are joined by a bracket and Landed I.T. Transit Cert followed by illegible
information that is probably the numbers of the certificates.
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M1414, Reel 5, Section 4, Vol. 28 & 29 Manifest 9348.
Transcribed by Fran Taylor, a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
19 August 2005
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