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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 |
Copyright | Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK |