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SS Oceanic
I, W.M. Smith, Master of the S.S. Oceanic 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) W.M. Smith
Sworn to this 14 day of March 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. Oceanic whereof W.M. Smith is Master, from Hong Kong via Yokohama & Honolulu, burthen 2440 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*, No of Bond, If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts.
For San Francisco holding Chinese Consular Certificates
1 1 8/?/90 Leong Quong 22 Landed 18-Mar 444 affdt mcht
2 2 10/26/91 Chung Hing 43 Landed 19-Mar 453 affdt mcht
3 3 12/?/90 Chew Wo 29 Landed 18-Mar 447 affdt mcht
4 4 ?/17/90 Chew Kui 28 Landed 14-Mar 436 affdt mcht
5 5 6/10/90 Loui Low 39 Landed 15-Mar 431 affdt mcht
6 6 12/11/90 Chai Yue 35 Landed ?-Mar 448 affdt mcht
7 7 11/17/90 Chai Tong 27 Landed ?-Mar 449 affdt mcht
8 15 10/2?/89 Chong Chung 33 Landed 16-Mar 442 affdt mcht
9 16 10/30/90 Wong Hong 30 Landed 16-Mar 454 affdt mcht
10 30 11/21/90 Cham Sam Lee 43 Landed 18-Mar 452 affdt mcht
11 31 2/9/90 Chung Way Yee 47 Landed 16-Mar 435 affdt mcht
12 32 11/24/91 Ng Hok Ching 41 Landed 15-Mar 445 affdt mcht
13 33 11/10/90 Leong Kum 40 Landed 15-Mar 430 affdt mcht
14 56 12/1?/90 Leong Kang 34 Landed ?-Mar 446 affdt mcht
15 57 4/10/90 Wee Leu Yin 30 Landed 15-Mar 434 affdt mcht
16 58 11/?/? Lue Wah 26 Landed ?-Mar 433 affdt mcht
17 59 1/4/89 Lee Pat Ting 32 Landed ?-Mar 432 affdt mcht
18 60 7/16/90 Loo Chun Gong 22 Landed 16-Mar 440 affdt mcht
19 61 ?/?/90 How Seong 32 Landed ?-Mar 441 affdt mcht
20 62 1?/?/90 Lam Quong 26 Landed 14-Mar 428 affdt mcht
21* 64 4/1/91 Loui Oy 9 Landed ?-Mar Native of US
22* 65 4/1/91 La? Lin 8 Landed ?-Mar Native of US
23 70 11/?/90 Mah Pong On 34 Landed 16-Mar 438 affdt mcht
24 71 ?/?/91 Chow Quan Chan 38 Landed 16-Mar 443 affdt mcht
25 72 ?/?/90 Leong Hing 32 Landed 16-Mar 439 affdt mcht
26 85 #97 Chung Lap 33 Landed 15-Mar 429 affdt mcht
27 87 8/20/90 Pou Yuen 38 Landed 16-Mar 427 affdt mcht
For San Francisco without Certificates
28* 34 Leong Kun 15 Landed 14-Mar Native of US
29* 63 ??ong Ho 21 Landed ?-Mar Wife of merchant
30* 66 Lee Too 23 Landed 17-Mar 456
31* 67 Yung Soy Lin 26 Landed ? 450
32* 68 Lee Soy Gho 23 Refused Departed per Oceanic March 26, 1892
33* 69 Loo Kwai Tue 24 Refused Departed per Oceanic March 26, 1892
34* 490 Yuen Yun Lan 17 Refused Habeas Corpus USDC Case 103?4
For Panama
35 8 Yue Loy 45 Departed per SS San Blas Mch 15/92
36* 9 Yue Ha 15 Departed per SS San Blas Mch 15/92
37 10 Yue Lun 30 Departed per SS San Blas Mch 15/92
38 11 Kwong King Chung 40 Departed per SS San Blas Mch 15/92
39 12 Kwong King Yung 30 Departed per SS San Blas Mch 15/92
40 13 Kwong Tim 22 Departed per SS San Blas Mch 15/92
41 14 Kwong Yue Hing 20 Departed per SS San Blas Mch 15/92
42 21 Wong Chan 30 Departed per SS San Blas Mch 15/92
43 22 Wong On 28 Departed per SS San Blas Mch 15/92
44 23 Wong Ying 35 Departed per SS San Blas Mch 15/92
45 24 Wong Hui 26 Departed per SS San Blas Mch 15/92
46 25 Chun Hoon 27 Departed per SS San Blas Mch 15/92
For Havana
47 17 Cheong Pat 47 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
48 18 Cheong Fook 48 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
49 19 Leong Lick 20 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
50 20 Mar Sam 26 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
51 26 Wong Hong Sow 24 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
52 27 Cheang Sow Yee 40 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
53 35 Yung Yick Hin 26 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
54 36 Yung Sing Wak 22 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
55 37 Yung Yune Fun 20 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
56 38 Yung Pak Yee 24 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
57 39 Yung Sha Tai 20 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
58 40 Yung Yuck Ke 31 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
59 41 Yung Sew Lan 36 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
60 42 Yung Sing Sak 25 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
61 43 Yung Sha Chow 20 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
62 44 Yung Kan Seang 21 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
63 45 Yung Sew Pong 23 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
64 46 Yung Sing Low 20 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
65 47 Yung Yick Yum 25 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
66 48 Yung Sing Fan 26 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
67 49 Yung Soy Let 26 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
68 50 Yung Sew Wan 23 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
69 51 Yung Kum Sow 23 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
70 52 Yung Soy Fei 23 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
71 53 Soy Nam Chock 25 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
72 54 Yung Sing Kang 32 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
73 55 Yung Koon Kow 25 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
74 73 Lum Kue Yan 26 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
75 74 Leong Man Che 40 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
76 75 Yep Poo 24 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
77 76 Kwan Wai 29 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
78 77 Ching Tang 20 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
79 78 Ching Che 23 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
80 79 Leong Fun 25 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
81 80 Leong Yue 25 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
82 81 Leong Lee 32 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
83 82 Leong Foon 27 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
84 83 Suy Luk 30 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
85 84 Chung Yan 50 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
86 86 Chung Sik 40 Landed IT Trans Certs No 905 inclusive
Recapitulation Men Women Boys Girls Total
San Francisco with certs 25 2 27
San Francisco without certs 1 6 6
Panama 12 12
Havana 40 40
Total 78 6 2 86
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:
Height
Complexion
Color of Eyes
Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification
Occupation is Grocer for all passengers except as noted below.
Last Residence is China for all passengers.
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.
21 Occupation is "with her aunt #63."
22 First name could be Lain or Lam. This passenger could also be "with her aunt" indicated
by ditto marks that are not legible.
28 Occupation is "with husband #33."
29 Occupation is "with her husband #62."
30 Occupation is "to join her husband Yue Fook ?ook Loy ??? Jackson St."
31 Occupation is "to join her husband." The husband appears to have been identified but
the information is not legible.
32 Occupation is "to join her husband Chun Tai." His address is obscured by the Refused stamp.
33 Occupation is "to join her husband Lew Fat." His address is obscured by the Refused stamp.
28-34 listed as Fem.
36 Occupation is "with his father #8."
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M1414, Reel 5, Section 4, Vol. 28 & 29, Manifest 9356.
Transcribed by Fran Taylor, a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
17 November 2005
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