Immigrant Ships
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SS California


London, England and Halifax, Nova Scotia to New York
11 January 1882

DISTRICT OF NEW YORK - PORT OF NEW YORK

Anchor Line of Transatlantic Steam Packet Ships

I, Wm. Stewart H. Young, Master of the Steam-Ship California do solemnly, sincerely, and truly declare 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 New York, is a full and perfect list of all the Passengers taken on board of the said S.S. California at London from which port said (blank) has now arrived; and that on said list is truly designated the age, the sex, and the occupation of each of said passengers, the location of the compartment or space of the said vessel occupied by each during the passage, the country to which each belongs, and also the country of which it is intended by each to become an inhabitant; and that said List or Manifest truly sets forth the number of said passengers who have died on said voyage, and the dates, and the names and ages of those who died. So help me God.
Sworn to this Jan. 11th 1882 before me R???????? dc
List or Manifest of all the Passengers taken on board the Steam-Ship California whereof Wm Stewart H. Young is Master from London burthen 3500 tons.
Columns represent: Name, Age, Sex, Occupation, The Country to which they severally belong, The country in which they intend to become inhabitants*, Died on the voyage*, Part of the Vessel occupied during the voyage.
Saloon Passengers
  1* Mrs        Campbell    30    f                 England
  2* Infant     Campbell      10m f                 England
  3  Mr. L.     Bell        39    m none            England
  4  Mrs        Bell        29    f                 England
  5  Willie     Bell         3    m                 England
  6  Infant     Bell                                England
  7  Infant     Bell                                England
  8  Servant E. Hammond     60    f servant         England
  9  Mr. H. H.  Jones       23    m servant         England
 10  Mr. S.     Potter      29    m servant         England
 11  Mr. R.     Norman      27    m surgeon         England
 12  Mr. Ed.    Rothwell    35    m acctant         England
 13* Mr. L.     Brown       21    m me?????         England
 14* ????       ?????       ??    ? ??????          England
 15  Mr. Jos.   Williams    31    m                 England
 16  Mrs.       Williams    29    f                 England
 17  Mr. A.     Rawlans     45    m carriage manf.  England
 18* Mr. Ch^s   Lud????     ??    m sugar ????      ?????
 19* Mr. Wm.    Kat?????    50    m sugar boilor    ?????

Steerage Passengers
 20  Geo. H.    Allison     55    m cook            England
 21  Caroline   Cinus       26    f                 England
 22  Ellen C.   Cinus        4    f                 England
 23  Ada Susan  Cinus        1y6m f                 England
 24  Joseph     Lewis       51    m bargeman        England
 25  Eli        Jukes       31    m bargeman        England
 26  Geo.       Waters      25    m laborer         England
 27  Wm.        Lamsdew     30    m laborer         England
 28  A.         Rawland     57    m gtman           England
 29  H.         Heimann     46    m farmer          Germany
 30  Adolph     Caunt       24    m merchant        Germany
 31  Carl       Ruhel       21    m musician        Germany
 32  Jacob      Leonhardt   27    m plasterer       Germany
 33* Joh.       Le????ars   28    m baker           Germany
 34  Hermann    Armhaust    32    m farmer          Germany
 35* Wm.        Vogelsang   24    m ?????           Germany
 36  Christ.    Fehner      26    m mason           Germany
 37* Louis      Muller      23    m servant         Germany
 38  Josefa     Molar       20    f seamstress      Spain
 39  Giov.      Gius        23    m laborer         Italy
 40* ?????      Lurillo     29    m laborer         Italy
 41  Antonio    Pucciarelli 25    m laborer         Italy
 42  Giasafada  Berechte    40    m laborer         Italy
 43  Pasquale   Mengoni     52    m laborer         Italy
 44  Mer.       Rignicci    29    m laborer         Italy
 45  Alex.      Piccini     26    m laborer         Italy
 46  Guil.      Santucci    30    m laborer         Italy
 47* Cariela    C??nuigila  40    m laborer         Italy
 48  Agastine   Calamini    28    m laborer         Italy

From Halifax
 49  H.         Cukin       31    m trader          Germany
 50  F. R.      Smith       28    m trader          Germany


Transcriber's Notes:

*  An asterisk is used to call attention to additional information in the
   Passenger Notes.

?  A question mark indicates illegible letters or words.

*  All passengers intended to become inhabitants of the U. S. of America so
   that column was eliminated. 

*  There were no deaths on the voyage so that column was also eliminated.

*  The Passengers were numbered by the transcriber.

*  No births were recorded on this voyage.

*  Passengers #1 and #2 were identified as Emma Campbell and her daughter Lucy
   by Lucy Kellogg Farley.


Passenger Notes:

#13 - Occupation illegible due to handwriting.
#14 - Original list damaged.
#18 - Illegible due to handwriting.
#19 - Illegible due to handwriting.
#33 - Surname illegible due to handwriting.
#35 - Occupation illegible due to handwriting.
#37 - Umlaut u in surname.
#40 - Given name illegible due to handwriting.
#47 - Surname illegible due to handwriting.
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 446, List 38.
Transcribed by Robert W. Grose a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
3 April 2002




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