Immigrant Ships
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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 26 day of Aug 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, Certificate Date*, Height*, Complexion*, Color of Eyes*, Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification*, If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts.

 1* 1  Seu   Ah   ?ing 21 San Francisco Mc 11/89   Landed 03-Sep Native of US
 2  4  Chang Hing      30 San Francisco Nov 1/94   Landed 28-Aug Affadavit Merchant
 3  5  Toy   Fung      36 San Francisco Nov 14/94  Refused Departed per steamer Peru Sep 3 1895          
 4  6  See   Jim  Tang 39 San Francisco June 14/94 Landed 31-Aug Affadavit Merchant
 5  7  Moy   Yue       39 Peoria, Ill   July 2/94  Landed 31-Aug Affadavit Merchant
 6  9  Wong  Sam  Sue  38 Napa          Oct 3/94   Landed 31-Aug Affadavit Merchant
 7* 10 Wong  Sing Lai  19 Sonoma        Augt 2/94  Landed 29-Aug Native of US
 8  11 Ng    Sam       36 Sact Lake     Augt 10/94 Landed 28-Aug Affadavit Merchant
 9  12 Fung  Ching     23 San Francisco Feby 11/95 Landed 28-Aug Affadavit Merchant
10* 13 Loo   P??       30 Montgomery    Sepm 27/94 Landed 28-Aug Affadavit Merchant
11  19 Dung  Man  Hong 49 San Francisco Apl 25/94  Landed 28-Aug Affadavit Merchant
12  20 Quan  Yuen      35 San Francisco Apl 5/94   Landed 28-Aug Affadavit Merchant
13  21 Pon   Chue      39 San Francisco Oct 3/94   Landed 30-Aug Affadavit Merchant
14  22 Pon   Him       30 San Francisco Dec 7/93   Landed 26-Aug Affadavit Merchant
15  26 Yue   Nang      41 Pittsburg     Oct 11/92  Landed 28-Aug Affadavit Merchant
16  27 Ng    You       41 Los Angeles   Mch 14/94  Landed 29-Aug Affadavit Merchant
17  28 Wang  Man       50 Calistoga     Nov 27/94  Landed 31-Aug Affadavit Merchant
18* 31 Wong  Choy Sou  20 SF            no certif  Landed 28-Aug Native of US
19  33 Chen  Tai       42 Shoshone Mont Dec 8/93   Landed 28-Aug Affadavit Merchant
20  34 Chin  Chun ?ung 33 Pocatello Id  Apr 7/94   Landed 28-Aug Affadavit Merchant

       Panama

21  15 Che   Fung Kong 37 Panama   Departed per steamer San Jose Aug 28 1895, Panama             
22  16 Lum   Chun Fook 27 Panama   Departed per steamer San Jose Aug 28 1895, Panama             
23  23 Chun  Kai  Loy  25 Panama   Departed per steamer San Jose Aug 28 1895, Panama             
24  24 Chung Sang Loy  23 Panama   Departed per steamer San Jose Aug 28 1895, Panama             
25* 25 Chung Kam  Loy  14 Panama   Departed per steamer San Jose Aug 28 1895, Panama             

       Demerara*

26  3  Ho    Lai       50 Demerara Departed per steamer San Jose Aug 28 1895, Panama             

       Pittsburg Pa

27  8  Lee   Ng        47 Pittsburg July 21/93   Landed  28-Aug  Affadavit Merchant
                                                                                
       Havana by Steamer                                                                                
                                                                                
28  2  Siong Sou       48 Havana   Departed per steamer San Jose Aug 28 1895, Panama             
29  17 Chung Kwong     24 Havana   Departed per steamer San Jose Aug 28 1895, Panama             
30  18 Chong Tai       30 Havana   Departed per steamer San Jose Aug 28 1895, Panama             

       Havana by Rail Road

31* 14 Tam   Hoi  Yew  47 Havana   Landed "I.T." Transit List 4764               
32* 29 Lou   Chin      33 Havana   Landed "I.T." Transit List 4765               
33* 30 Lou   Wah       31 Havana   Landed "I.T." Transit List 4766               
34* 32 Tam   Hoo  Chun 48 Havana   Landed "I.T." Transit List 4767
35* 35 King  Wai  Luk  48 Havana   Landed "I.T." Transit List 4768
36* 36 Tam   Lee       42 Havana   Landed "I.T." Transit List 4769

    Recapitulation  Men Women
     San Francisco   19   1
     Panama           5
     Demerara         1
     Pittsburg, Pa    1
     Havana by Str    3
     Havana by Rail   6
          Total      35   1


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) 1895 by  Insp's (blank 
 for a name, in this case O'Leary). 
 
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 Grocer for all passengers except as noted below.

No. of Certificate column has been changed to No of Ticket.  The column, apparently 
 of dates, between Last Residence and Landed contains information added by the completer.
 There is no official column.  It is either the date of  departure from the US or the 
 date of the passenger's Merchant Certificate.  One of the passengers has "no certificate" 
 written in this column making certificate date the more likely.  The only  Chinese 
 allowed to  enter the US by this year were those who were already in the US, could 
 prove they were merchants and acquire a certificate before they departed.  

Demerara is in Guyana.

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   Second name, Ah, was inserted in a different hand.  The initial letter of the third name 
     looks a bit like either S or L, making it Sing or Ling, but not quite right for either.
 7   Occupation is "with his ??ther #9."  There appear to be only two letters that are illegible
     but they look more like le than fa.  Comparison with another pasenger's "with his 
     brother" says the word could be brother. 
10   Second name is Piu or Pui.
18   Occupation is married woman. 
25   Occupation is "with his brother #23."
31-36 Departed per SPRR August 27, 1895.  This is probably Southern Pacific Railroad.    
 

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