Immigrant Ships
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SS Peru

I, William Ward, Master of the Amer SS 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) William Ward
Sworn to this 1 day of Oct 1892, before me, (signature) John Dare, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the SS Peru whereof William Ward is Master, from China and Japan, 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  Lai    Chun        28 San Frco    Landed 6-Oct  Affdt Mcht
 2  Yip    Kim   Hoo   28 Los Angeles Landed 5-Oct  Affdt Mcht
 3  Lee    Ping        27 San Frco    Landed 6-Oct  Affdt Mcht
 4  Lim    On          31 Stockton    Landed 4-Oct  Affdt Mcht
 5  Ng     Chan        27 Watsonville Landed 1-Oct  Affdt Mcht
 6  Wong   Hing  Mow   36 San Frco    Landed 6-Oct  Affdt Mcht
 7  Ng     Qwai        28 Elko        Landed 3-Oct  Affdt Mcht
 8  Yin    Chin  Lee   42 Columbus O  Landed 1-Oct  Affdt Mcht
 9  Yow    Choy        27 San Frco    Landed 1-Oct  Affdt Mcht
10  Chong  Ping  Qwai  45 San Frco    Landed 6-Oct  Affdt Mcht
11  Low    Foon        35             Refused Departed per SS Peru Oct 15, 1892  
12  Qwan   Chum        31 Los Angeles Landed 1-Oct  Affdt Mcht
13  Qwan   Kwong       40 Butte City  Landed 3-Oct  Affdt Mcht
14  Qwan   Chip        32 Los Angeles Landed 1-Oct  Affdt Mcht
15  Qwan   Kwock Yee   45             Landed 1-Oct  Affdt Mcht
16  Cho    Chin        34 San Frco    Landed 5-Oct  Affdt Mcht
17* Ho Sa  Chik  Kong  37             Departed per City of Sydney Oct 15, 1892   
18  Yue    Qwong       42             Landed 1-Oct  Affdt Mcht
19  Yan    Chew  Tong  38 El Paso     Landed 3-Oct  Affdt Mcht
20  Cheong Qwong Pam   34 Kansas City Landed 3-Oct  Affdt Mcht
21  Lew    Kwai  Yuk   20 San Frco    Landed 4-Oct  Affdt Fem Native of US
22  Chue   Ying        21 San Frco    Landed 10-Oct Affdt Fem Native of US
23  Loo    Kwai  Ho    20 San Frco    Landed 4-Oct  Affdt Fem Merchant's wife
24  Leong  Gun         25 San Frco    Landed 6-Oct  Affdt Fem Merchant's wife
25  Wong   Pan         32 Oakland     Landed 6-Oct  Affdt Mcht
26  Wong   Qwong Yow   45 San Frco    Landed 7-Oct  Affdt Mcht
27  Wong   Yow   Chong 35             Refused Habeas Corpus USDC Case 10453      
28  Wing   Sum         20             Refused Departed per SS Peru Oct 15, 1892  
29  Wong   Chum        31             Landed 6-Oct  Affdt Mcht
30  Lo     Man   Pack  44             Refused Departed per SS Peru Oct 15, 1892  
31  Tong   Fat         43             Landed ?      Affdt Mcht


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) 1892 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:
 Last Place of Residence
 Height
 Complexion
 Color of Eyes
 Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification

In the No of Certificate column heading Certificate has been crossed out, replaced by Ticket.
 Nearly all of these numbers are too light to read and seem to be identical to the Number
 of Passenger added by the transcriber.  Therefore, they have not been transcribed.
Occupation is Grocer for all passengers except as noted below.
The Destination column was added by the original scribe.  The information in this column
 has been obscured by the Landed stamp placed over it.  It is possible that blanks transcribed
 above have ditto marks indicating the same as the entry above.

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.
 

17  Recorded as In Transit for Puntarenas, which is in Costa Rica. 

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