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SS Belgic
I, Wm H. Walker, Master of the S.S. Belgic 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) Wm H. Walker
Sworn to this 19 day of Feb 1892, before me, (signature) M Webber, Deputy Collector of Customs
Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the S.S. Belgic whereof Wm H. Walker is Master, from Hong Kong, burthen 2695 tons
Columns represent: Number, No of Ticket, No of Certificate, Name, Age, Occupation*, Last Place of Residence*, Height*, Complexion*, Color of Eyes*, Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification*, If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts.
Custom House Certificates
1* 34 1019 Chew Ching 40 ? Landed 27-Feb 402 Affdt Merchant
2* 28 1395 Moy Lin For 36 Chicago Landed ? 392 Affdt Merchant
3* 29 1397 Moy Wing Qwong 9 Landed ? Native of US
4* 30 1398 Moy Wing Chun 7 Landed ? Native of US
Merchant's Certificates
5 1 8/1/91 Chun Gank 28 ? Landed 20-Feb Affdt Merchant
6* 2 10/8//91 Yung Foo? 23 San Francisco Refused USDC Habeas Corpus Case 11564
7* 3 10/8//91 Chow Lan 5 Refused USDC Habeas Corpus Case 11564
8 8 28/8/90 Ng Sang 26 Los Angeles Refused USDC Habeas Corpus Case 11567
9 9 28/8/90 Ng Chew 28 Landed 23-Feb Affdt Merchant
10 12 21/8/90 Chew On 28 Landed 23-Feb Affdt Merchant
11 13 18/10/91 Tong Yow 26 Ogden Landed 20-Feb Affdt Merchant
12 14 15/3/90 Wong Pan Soon 28 ? Landed 20-Feb Affdt Merchant
13 17 3/1/89 Lee Mee 35 Landed 20-Feb Affdt Merchant
14 18 1/3/89 Tong Nui 27 Landed 20-Feb Affdt Merchant
15 19 15/5/90 Chow Tack Fong 27 Landed 20-Feb Affdt Merchant
16 20 15/5/90 Lai Yow Sing 35 Landed 20-Feb Affdt Merchant
17 21 1/3/89 Chong Yeong 41 Landed 20-Feb Affdt Merchant
18 22 6/9/89 Gong Gee 34 Landed 20-Feb Affdt Merchant
19 23 16/3/91 Yow Sun 29 Landed 20-Feb Affdt Merchant
20 24 5/5/91 Chun Sam Tye 35 Landed 20-Feb Affdt Merchant
21 25 22/4/91 Lam Wok 44 Landed 20-Feb Affdt Merchant
22 26 21/2/89 Ng Sing 41 San Francisco Landed 20-Feb Affdt Merchant
23 27 23/1/89 Low Sow 48 Landed 20-Feb Affdt Merchant
24 31 30/10/90 Lai Nam Chung 21 Newark, NJ Landed 20-Feb Affdt Merchant
25 32 22/9/90 Chew Sing 26 ? NM Landed 20-Feb Affdt Merchant
26 33 24/6/89 Chew Man Kim 46 San Francisco Landed 20-Feb Affdt Merchant
27 2826 Quong Sing 42 Sacramento Refused USDC Habeas Corpus Case 11566
No Certificates
28* 10 Chew Moi 36 San Francisco Landed ? wife of Merchant
29 11 Ng Luk 15 Landed ? Native of US
30* 15 Ching Lin Yow 21 Landed ? wife of Merchant
31* 16 Kuan Tang Suy 22 Landed ? wife of Merchant
32 489 Chow Yut Gho 25 Landed ? wife of Merchant
Recapitulation Men Women Boys Girls Total
Custom House 2 2 4
Merchant's 21 1 1 23
Without 1 4 5
Total 24 5 2 1 32
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) 1891 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
were kept in Quarantine at Angel Island until the case was adjudicated. 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
Occupation is illegible for passengers 1,2,5,6 & 29. It is Merchant for 8-27.
See notes below for remaining passengers.
Last Residence is illegible if there is a question mark and not entered if it is blank.
Blanks may actually be unseen ditto marks. See notes below.
Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification had entries for
passengers one and two only. See notes below.
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 Mole on each forearm.
2 ? ? on right temple.
3 Occupation is Boy.
4 Occupation is probably Boy because there are 2 boys in the recapitulation but
the information might be ditto marks that are not legible.
6-7 are joined by a bracket a single USDC Case number and the words mother and child.
They both have Fem written in the margin.
7 Occupation is Girl.
28,30,31 have Fem written in the margin. Occuption is Woman.
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M1414, Reel 5, Section 4, Vol. 28 & 29, Manifest 9354.
Transcribed by Fran Taylor, a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
4 November 2005
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