Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS Peru

I, Daniel E Friele, Master of the Steamship Peru 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 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) Daniel E Friele
Sworn to this 23 day of Jan 1895, before me, (signature) JJ Tobin, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the Steamship Peru whereof
Daniel E Friele is Master, from Hong Kong, burthen 2540 tons

Columns represent: Number, No of Certificate*, Name, Age, Occupation*, Last Place of Residence*, Destination*, Height*, Complexion*, Color of Eyes*, Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification*, If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts.

 1  1  Nam   Yam   Liu   30 Hong Kong     Callao        Departed per San Blas Panama Jan 28 1895 
 2  2  Paon  Hang        48 Hong Kong     Panama        Departed per San Blas Panama Jan 28 1895 
 3* 3  Wong  Sh?g  Man   34 Dutch Flat    San Francisco Landed 24-Jan Affadavit Merchant
 4  4  Lee   Chan  Lou   23 Hong Kong     Trinidad      Departed per San Blas Panama Jan 28 1895 
 5* 5  Lee   Chai  Pa?   31 Hong Kong     Trinidad      Departed per San Blas Panama Jan 28 1895 
 6  6  Lee   Hong  Ying  46 Hong Kong     Trinidad      Departed per San Blas Panama Jan 28 1895 
 7* 7  Chan  Joy         30 Hong Kong     Bluefield     Landed "I.T." Transit List 4035
 8* 8  Yue   Chue        38 Hong Kong     Salina Cruz   Landed "I.T." Transit List 4046
 9* 9  Yue   Yoe         25 Hong Kong     Salina Cruz   Landed "I.T." Transit List 4047
10  10 Wong  Lai   Poy   52 Hong Kong     Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Feb 19 1895    
11  11 Wong  Kuen  Jong  18 Hong Kong     Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Feb 19 1895    
12  12 Lee   Kue         26 Hong Kong     Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Feb 19 1895    
13  13 Mah   Loy   Leang 29 Hong Kong     Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Feb 19 1895    
14  14 Lop   Mong  Fan   23 Hong Kong     Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Feb 19 1895    
15  15 Loo   Liu   Kuong 21 Hong Kong     Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Feb 19 1895    
16  16 Chang Man   Chung 22 Hong Kong     Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Feb 19 1895    
17  17 Wong  Chai  Nam   43 Hong Kong     Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Feb 19 1895    
18  18 Wong  Kee   Hoy   33 Hong Kong     Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Feb 19 1895    
19  19 Yung  Han   Lun   45 Hong Kong     Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Feb 19 1895    
20* 20 Ng    L?    Man   40 Hong Kong     Salina Cruz   Landed "I.T." Transit List 4036
21  21 Man   Foo   Hock  30 Hong Kong     Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Feb 19 1895    
22  22 Ngu   Ping  Fan   22 Hong Kong     Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Feb 19 1895    
23* 23 Ng    Soy   Lang  26 San Francisco               Landed 24-Jan Affadavit Merchant
24  24 Lai   Sing        21 Hong Kong     Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Feb 19 1895    
25  25 Leong Heo         21 Hong Kong     Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Feb 19 1895    
26* 26 Leong Choy  Wan   29 Hong Kong     Salina Cruz   Landed "I.T." Transit List 4037
27* 27 Leong Chow  Kee   11 Hong Kong     Salina Cruz   Landed "I.T." Transit List 4038
28* 28 On    Yat         26 San Jose      San Francisco Landed 24-Jan Affadavit Merchant
29* 29 Poon  Yick        22 San Francisco               Landed 23-Jan Affadavit Merchant
30  30 Juy   Lui   Hoy   39 San Francisco               Refused Departed per Peru Hong Kong Feb 2 1895
31  31 Tam   Kan         24 Hong Kong     Havana        Landed "I.T." Transit List 4028
32* 32 Yue   Cou         39 Cheyenne      ?             Landed 24-Jan Affadavit Merchant
33* 33 Lee   Joe   Lack  26 Hong Kong     Havana        Landed "I.T." Transit List 4029
34* 34 Lee   Joe   Chock 35 Hong Kong     Havana        Landed "I.T." Transit List 4030
35* 35 Lou   Hee   ?ai   40 Hong Kong     Havana        Landed "I.T." Transit List 4031
36  36 Chun  Pen         25 San Francisco San Francisco Landed 24-Jan Affadavit Merchant
37* 37 Lee   Joe         24 Hong Kong     Havana        Landed "I.T." Transit List 4032
38  38 Leong Ping        37 San Francisco San Francisco Landed 24-Jan Affadavit Merchant
39  39 Leong Yun         42 New York                    Landed 24-Jan Affadavit Merchant
40* 40 Leong Jung        23 Hong Kong     Havana        Landed "I.T." Transit List 4033
41* 41 Leong Pang        30 Hong Kong     Havana        Landed "I.T." Transit List 4026
42  42 Ng    Hock  Tam   33 Hong Kong                   Departed per Colon Panama Feb 19 1895    


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 filing system
 for Chinese persons at the National Archives.  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) 1895 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

In the No of Certificate column heading Certificate is crossed out and replaced by Ticket.

Last Residence is somewhat difficult to determine.  There are ditto marks down the length
 of the column beneath the Hong Kong entry in the first row.  There are also other cities 
 entered in this column as noted above.  All of these passengers have Landed stamps that 
 are placed over the Destination column.  Some of them have legible entries under the stamp.  
 It is possible that these passengers' Last Residence is not what is written in the column.  
 Rather, that the record shows different destinations, one by ship and another the final 
 destination, since only passengers with a US destination have this anomaly.

The Destination column was created by the original recorder.

Occupation is Grocer for all passengers except as noted below.  Occupation is universally 
 recorded as Merchant or Grocer because following the Chinese Exclusion Act of May 6, 1882 
 admission was denied to all Chinese except laborers already in the US and "students, 
 teachers, merchants or those proceeding to the United States from curiosity."

Callao is the port for Lima, Peru.  Bluefields is on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua.
 Salina Cruz is on the Pacific coast of Mexico. 

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. 

This manifest is one of the more challenging I have transcribed.  The handwriting is difficult
 and the information has been written over and is in general difficult to interpret. The 
 handwritting of this recorder has spikes instead of rounded humps for lower case m and n.


7,31,33-35,37,40-41  Departed per SPRR January 24, 1895.  This is probably Southern Pacific RR.
8-9,20  Departed pe SS Colon Febry 19, 1895.
 3   Second name looks like Shing but there are not enough spikes for both i and n. There is 
     a dot.  
 5   Third name could be Pan but the spikes are very tall and look more like Pall.
20   Second name looks like Lt.  It is a clear L followed by a tall spike and an apparent cross.
26-27  Departed per SS Colima Mch 18, 1895.
32   The city written beneath the Landed stamp is illegible, but could be San Francisco since
     it seems to be two words.
35   The initial letter of the third name has loops both above and below so could be a Y.  
     The second letter is a or u.

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