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Title Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1883. Volume 4. Offices, Companies and Agents (Except Crown Agents) [Part 2]
Date 17 Jan-21 Dec 1883
Document Type Correspondence; Manuscript
Reference CO 384/146
Library / Archive The National Archives
Collection Name War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence.
Description The second of a four part document containing correspondence concerning the administration of the Colonies. This part contains letters to and from the India Office and Board of Trade, and discusses subjects largely concerning the movement of Indian labourers around Colonies, including reports on ships with poor conditions and high mortality.
Series Description This series contains correspondence relating to British settlement in North America and Australasia, and to Indian indentured labour in the West Indies. Until 1857 it consists of domestic letters alone. The series then ceases and is not resumed until 1872.
Biographical Note / History A Colonial Land and Emigration Commission was created in 1840 to undertake the duties of two earlier and overlapping authorities under the supervision of the secretary of state: the Colonisation Commissioners for South Australia and the Agent General for Emigration. In 1855 it became the Emigration Commission. The commission's powers were gradually given up to the larger colonies as they obtained self-government, and after 1873 it was responsible only for controlling the importation of Indian labour into sugar-producing colonies. It was abolished in 1878 and an Emigration Department was then set up in the Colonial Office. This department was merged with the General Department in 1894, and abolished altogether in 1896.
Theme(s) Politics, Legislation and Governance; Departures: Port Conditions and Organisation; Motives for Emigration
Country (from) Great Britain; Ireland; India; Jamaica; Mauritius; Trinidad; British Guiana; Fiji; St Lucia; Réunion; Grenada; Sri Lanka; South Africa; St Vincent; Surinam; Guadalupe
Country (to) Canada; United States of America; Australia; India; Jamaica; Mauritius; Trinidad; British Guiana; Fiji; St Lucia; Réunion; Grenada; Sri Lanka; South Africa; St Vincent; Surinam; Guadalupe
Places Queensland, Australia; Demerara, British Guiana; London, England
Ports Calcutta, India; Natal, South Africa; Georgetown, Demerara, British Guiana
Nationality Sinhalese; Indian; Irish; English
Ships Ellora; Bayard; Ophir; Canada; Ganges; Shah Jehan; Chetah; Bengal; Yorkshire; Clive; Zanzibar; Rohilla; Plassy; North; Bengollynn; Berar; Poonah; Newcastle; Lightning; Howrah; Jura; British Nation; Sheila; Neva; Bann; Foyle; Jumna; Earl Granville; Lee Glenroy; Merchantman
People Duke of Devonshire (Compton Cavendish, Spencer); Earl of Derby (Stanley, Sir Edward Henry); Ashley, Evelyn; Lord Kimberley (Wodehouse, John); Kortright, Cornelius H; Herbert, Sir Robert George Wyndham; Wingfield, Edward
Keywords ship ventilation, female emigration, marriage, legislation, mortality, sickness, health, death, assisted passage, emigration bill, lunatic, labour, labourers
Language English
Document(s) linked to Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1883. Volume 1. Eastern and Australian Despatches
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1883. Volume 2. British Guiana and Trinidad Despatches
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1883. Volume 3. Jamaica, Windward and Leeward Islands and Miscellaneous Despatches
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1883. Volume 4. Offices, Companies and Agents (Except Crown Agents) [Part 1]
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1883. Volume 4. Offices, Companies and Agents (Except Crown Agents) [Part 3]
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1883. Volume 4. Offices, Companies and Agents (Except Crown Agents) [Part 4]
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1883. Volume 5. Crown Agents, Individuals and Surgeons
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