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 Hong Kong, Apr 24, 1894 arriving at Port of San Fran, May 21, 1894.

Columns represent: Number, Name, Age, Married or Single, Occupation, Nationality, 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

  
 1* Hyarising  Moogasing  25y0m  Married Animals  Sikh     Singapore San Fran    yes less No  No

        Sailing from Yokohama May 4th, 1894

 2  Kojiro     Hanai      26y8m  No      Student  Japanese Shizuoka  Chicago Ill no  yes  No  No
 3  Risaburo   Matsui     15y8m  No      Student  Japanese Yamaguchi San Fran    yes yes  No  No
 4  Runnosuke  Minanude   33y8m  yes     Student  Japanese Wakayama  San Fran    yes yes  No  No
 5* Kiminatsu   Kitano    24y8m  No      Student  Japanese Wakayama  San Fran    yes yes  No  No
 6  Inosuke    Nishide    29y1m  yes     Student  Japanese Wakayama  San Fran    yes yes  No  No
 7  Shintaro   Nishide    15y1m  No      Student  Japanese Wakayama  San Fran    yes yes  No  No
 8  Novaki     Yoshida    24y7m  No      Student  Japanese Wakayama  San Fran    yes yes  No  No
 9  Toichi     Matsumoto  16y6m  No      Student  Japanese Wakayama  San Fran    yes yes  No  No
10  Matsujiro  Matsumoto  31y1m  yes     Student  Japanese Wakayama  San Fran    yes yes  No  No
11  Seiga      Ito        36y6m  yes     Student  Japanese Kumamoto  San Fran    yes yes  No  No
12  Tatsujiro  Shimade    32y3m  yes     Student  Japanese Kumamoto  San Fran    yes yes  No  No
13  Sakejiro   Inaba      41y2m  yes     Student  Japanese Kumamoto  San Fran    yes yes  No  No
14* Kunetaro   Matsushita 22y9m  No      Student  Japanese Osaka     San Fran    yes yes  yes No
15  Ito        Sukehisa   35y10m yes     Merchant Japanese Chiba     San Fran    yes yes  No  No
16* Jutaro     Kawada     30y6m  yes     Student  Japanese Kumamoto  San Fran    yes yes  yes No
17  Yoshikatsu Nakayama   17y6m  No      Student  Japanese Kumamoto  San Fran    yes yes  No  No
18  Ishin      Mori       18y0m  No      Student  Japanese Kumamoto  San Fran    yes yes  No  No
19* Chiyozo    Murakani   34y4m  yes     Student  Japanese Yamaguchi San Fran    yes yes  No  No

        Sailing from Honolulu May 15, 1894

20* Kaleh      Salem      28y2m  single  Merchant Arabian  Honolulu  San Fran    yes $100 yes yes

    
Transcriber's Notes:
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:
 Sex=Male 
 Able to Read & Write=yes 
 Seaport for Landing in the US=San Francisco  
 By whom was passage paid?=self (except 1)
 Whether ever in Prison, Almshouse or supported by Charity=no
 Whether a Polygamist=no
 Whether under contract to labor in the US=no (except 1)
 Condition of Health Mental and Physical=good
 Whether having any deformities=no 

1  passage was paid by S da Silva.  He is under express contract to work in the US.
5  first name has a series of humps that could be any combination of i, n, m but 
   is most likely Kiminatsu.
14 has been to San Francisco once 1888
16 has been to San Francisco once 1891
19 At the end of this passenger's entry it says "Left at Honolulu."
20 has been to San Francisco 4yr ago.  He is going to join brother & sister in 
   San Francisco 2nd St

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M1410, Reel 1, Vol 2, Page 75,77,81.