Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS China

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. China, sailing from Yokohama Mch 1st, 1895 arriving at Port of San Francisco, Mar 15, 1895.

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

Please scroll to view all columns.

  
 1  Shigiju   Yamashita  21y5m  No  Merchant Japanese Nagasaki  San Jose      No  60   No  No
 2  Gustave   Muller     25y0m  No  Steward  German   Hong Kong San Francisco Yes 80   No  No
 3* Kusuke    Abe        30y7m  No  Steward  Japanese San Fran  USS Bear      Yes 1000 yes No
 4* Victor    Weinberg   23y0m  No  customs  Austrian Canton    San Francisco Yes 75   No  yes
 5  Goroyeman Ishida     48y10m Yes Merchant Japanese Shizuoka  San Francisco Yes 34   No  No
 6* Kichigori Yashita    43y2m  Yes Student  Japanese Kanagawa  San Francisco Yes 30   yes No
 7* Sankura   Tanabe     41y1m  Yes Student  Japanese Kanagawa  San Francisco Yes 30   yes No
 8  Matsuzo   Kimura     19y4m  No  Student  Japanese Tokio     San Francisco Yes 40   No  No
 9  Yasujiro  Tani       23y0m  No  Student  Japanese Ishikawa  San Francisco Yes 27   No  No
10  Senji     Okibayashi 30y2m  Yes Student  Japanese Hiroshima San Francisco Yes 30   No  No
11* Kumekichi Ishiguro   45y8m  No  Merchant Japanese Kanagawa  San Francisco Yes 600  yes No
12  Seijiro   Takagi     22y2m  Yes Student  Japanese Fukeshima San Francisco Yes 25   No  No
13  Etsu      Ishii      15y6m  No  Student  Japanese Tokio     San Francisco Yes 25   No  No
14  Ihei      Fukushima  22y4m  No  Student  Japanese Okayama   San Francisco Yes 50   No  No
15  Tamosuke  Hirose     19y9m  No  Student  Japanese Tokio     San Francisco Yes 28   No  No
16  Kikujiro  Iijima     18y0m  No  Student  Japanese Kanagawa  San Francisco Yes 30   No  No
17  Takichi   Tsukamoto  31y7m  No  Student  Japanese Chiba     San Francisco Yes 37   No  No
18* Gensaburo Ishikawa   28y7m  No  Student  Japanese Tokio     San Anselmo   No  50   yes No
19* Teisuke   Okamoto    24y6m  No  Student  Japanese Chiba     San Francisco Yes 35   yes No


Transcriber's Notes:

There is no captain's statement nor captain's name attached to this manifest.
In the Married or Single column or Single has been crossed out.
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?=Himself 
 Whether ever in Prison, Almshouse or supported by Charity=no
 Whether a Polygamist=no
 Whether under contract to labor in the US=no
 Condition of Health Mental and Physical=good
 Whether having any deformities=no 
Letters that are illegible or difficult to interpret are replaced by ?.

Passenger Notes:

 3  has been to US "once 1850 to Nov 1894 SS Bear."  The 1850 is difficult to 
     read and could be mistaken.
 4  Occupation is customs officer.  He is going to join Bro Mayer Weinberg 
     209 Fedrerick St. SF.
 6  has been to San Francisco once Jany/94.
 7  has been to San Francisco once Nov/94.
11  has been to San Francisco once 1895.
18  has been to San Francisco once Nov 1894.
19  has been to San Francisco Aug 1894.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M1410, Reel 1, Vol 3, Page 58.

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