Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

Unspecified Ship

OCEANIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY

QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED BY THE IMMIGRANT BEFORE BOOKING

NOTICE! If it is found upon the arrival of the immigrant in the United States that the following questions have not been correctly answered, the immigrant will be immediately returned. The immigrant will be required to swear to the truth of the following answers, if it be called for by the Commissioner of Immigration at the port of arrival in the United States. (A false oath will subject the immigrant to fine or imprisonment.)

Name: *                                       Date when booked:Sept 22 '94
Agent's Name: *                               Agent's place of business:*
Name of Steamer for which booked: *           Date of sailing from *

Columns represent: Number, Name, Age, Sex, Married or Single, Occupation, Able to Read & Write, Nationality, Last Residence, Seaport for Landing in the US, Final Destination in the US, Whether having a ticket to final destination, By whom was passage paid?, Whether in Possession of Money-if less than $30, how much?, Whether ever before in the US, Whether going to join Relative or Friend, Whether ever in Prison, Almshouse or supported by Charity, Whether a Polygamist, Whether under contract to labor in the US, Condition of Health Mental and Physical, Deformed or Crippled, Nature and Cause

1* William ?owan, age 49, sex blank, married, Occupation none, able to read 
  and write, Scotch, Quebec, S.F., S.F., has ticket to final destination, 
  passage paid by self, $30, has been in the US before, not joining anyone,
  never in prison, not a polygamist, not under contract to labor, good health,
  not crippled

I hereby certify that I have made true answers to the questions
which were asked in language understood by me, and which answers
have been recorded above.*


Transcriber's Notes:
This list is unusual in that it is designed for each passenger to have a separate page.
At the top of each page appear blanks labeled:
Name:                                         Date when booked:
Agent's Name:                                 Agent's place of business:
Name of Steamer for which booked:             Date of sailing from 

Beneath this the information for the passenger is filled out in the columns described above.

At the bottom of each page is an oath and a blank for the passenger's signature.

The only blank at the top of the page that was completed is booking date:
 Sep 22 '94.
There is no name of the ship on the page.  The only indication is the "Oceanic
 Steamship Company" at the top of the page.  There is very little indication
 of when or where this ship sailed from except the location of the page in
 the microfilm, the booking date and the Last Residence.  The page has been
 filmed in the midst of pages of ships that arrived in San Francisco in
 September and October, 1894.  In other instances on the film where this
 type of form was used there are usually several pages for the same ship's
 arrival.  His last residence is Quebec, but it is not unusual for passengers
 to list a last residence that is not in the area from which the ship departed.  The last residence for the passenger on the
 previous page is Honolulu, which raises questions about whether the page
 refer to the same arrival.

There is no captain's statement nor captain's name attached to this manifest.
Letters that are illegible or difficult to interpret are replaced by ?.

1 surname is Kowan or Vowan.  The signature is "Wm ?owan."

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M1410, Reel 1, Vol 2,
Page 139 Marked as Wm. Kowan or Vowan

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