Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS Peru

I, D.E. Friele, Master of the American 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) D.E. Friele
Sworn to this 17th day of Mar 1897, before me, (signature) NS Farley, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the Peru whereof D.E. Friele is Master, from Hong Kong, burthen 2540 tons

Columns represent: Number, No of Certificate*, Name, Age, Occupation, Last Place of Residence, Inspector, Height*, Complexion*, Color of Eyes*, Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification*, If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts.

              For San Francisco

 1  1    Ching Yick      35 Grocer   Georgia       Landed 20-Mar Hills    Affidavit Merchant
 2  2    Wong  Ying Ngau 24 Merchant S.F.          Landed 20-Mar Hills    Affidavit Merchant
 3  3    Wong  Chong     25 Merchant Riverside     Landed 20-Mar Hills    Affidavit Merchant
 4  4    Wong  Yick      20 Merchant S.F.          Landed 20-Mar Hills    Student
 5  5    Wong  Wan       40 Merchant S.F.          Landed 20-Mar Hills    Affidavit Merchant
 6  6    Kwan  Ow        36 Merchant S.F.          Landed 20-Mar Hills    Affidavit Merchant
 7  7    Leong Cheong    25 Laborer  San Francisco Landed 23-Mar O'Leary Return laborer
 8  8    Wong  You       21                        Refused  Habeas Corpus USDC Case 11330        
 9  13   Chin  Lun       36          San Mateo     Landed 20-Mar Hills    Affidavit Merchant
10  14   Tam   Yue  Ngo  44 Merchant San Mateo     Landed 23-Mar O'Leary  Affidavit Merchant
11  15   See   To   Sun  22          S.F.          Landed 29-Mar Harrison Native of US
12* 16   Chow  Yuen      21 Merchant King Co       Landed 20-Mar Hills    Affidavit Merchant
13* 17   L??   Ming      35 Merchant Fresno        Landed 23-Mar O'Leary  Affidavit Merchant
14  18   Lung  Len  Wing 24 Merchant San Francisco Landed 20-Mar Hills    Native of US
15  19   Lam   Waw       21          S.F.          Landed 3-Apr  O'Leary  Native of US
16  20   Seto  Daq       40 Merchant Los Angeles   Landed 24-Mar O'Leary  Affidavit Merchant
17* 675  Lee   Yuk  Jai  24          S.F.          Landed 7-Apr  O'Leary  Native of US
18* 676  Leong Kuen Ho   24          S.F.          Landed 3-Apr  O'Leary  Native of US
19* 677  Leong Quai Ho   22          S.F.          Landed 3-Apr  O'Leary  Native of US

              For Havana by Railroad

20  9    Ho    Kong      48 Grocer         Landed "I.T." Transit List 6208 Dep per S.P.R.R. Havana, March 23-'97 
21* 10   Wong  ?uai Sang 45 Grocer         Landed "I.T." Transit List 6209 Dep per S.P.R.R. Havana, March 23-'97 

              For Guaymas

22  11   Lo    Fook      45 Grocer         Dep per Str City of Sydney, Panama, March 20-'97              

              For Bluefields* by Rail

23* 12   Chun  ?ing      42 Grocer         Landed "I.T." Transit List 6209 Dep per S.P.R.R. Bluefields, March 23-'97
  

Recapitulation   Men  Women
  San Francisco   16    3
  Havana           2
  Guaymas          1
  Bluefields       1
         Total    20    3
 

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) 1897 by  Insp's (blank 
 for a name, in this case listed above). 
 
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)

In the No of Certificicate column heading Certificate has been crossed out, replaced by Ticket.

The following columns had no entries and are not included in the table:
 Height
 Complexion
 Color of Eyes
 Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification

Bluefields is on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. 

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.

12    Hanford is written in above King Co.
13    First name is Len or Leu.
17-19 Occupation is "married woman".
21    Second name begins with a letter that has a tail below the line.  It looks most like
       a Q but is very different from other Qs on the page.  It is probably not a Y because
       it is so different from all the Ys.  It could be a G but the tail loops backwards from
       what would be expected.
23    Second name begins with a letter that is a simple upstroke with a small loop at the
       bottom.  It is probably a J, they are often written with the tail above the line.
       It is different from all other Ss and Ls.
 

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