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Title | Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1884. Volume 5. Offices, Companies and Crown Agents |
Date | 8 Jan 1884 - 2 Feb 1885 |
Document Type | Correspondence; Manuscript |
Reference | CO 384/152 |
Library / Archive | The National Archives |
Collection Name | War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence. |
Description | Correspondence into various government offices from colonial staff and private companies. These letters largely regard the movement of indentured labourers around the Colonies, with particular emphasis on the remigration Indian workers and the introduction of Chinese workers into the labour market. This document also covers subjects such as the emigration of the Irish to Canada, the appointments, wages and pensions of colonial staff, and the journey condition on board migrants ships. This document also contains many printed letters. |
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) | Departures: Port Conditions and Organisation; Remigration; Journey Conditions |
Country (from) | Ireland; Mauritius; St Lucia; Trinidad; British Guiana; Fiji; India; China; Spain; Grenada; St Vincent; Barbados; Réunion |
Country (to) | Malaysia; Indonesia; Singapore; South Africa; Australia; Paraguay; Canada; Madeira; Sri Lanka; Panama; |
Places | Queensland, West Australia, Australia; Tenerife, Spain; Cape of Good Hope, South Africa; Toronto, Ottawa, Ontario, Manitoba, Canada; Demerara, British Guiana; Simla, Darjeeling, India; San Fernando, Trinidad; Glasgow, Scotland; Penang, Malaysia |
Ports | Natal, South Africa; Hong Kong, China; Calcutta, Madras, India |
Nationality | Indian; Irish; Chinese; Spanish; English |
Ships | Brenda; Bracadaile; Hesperides; Syria; Howrah; Bruce; Main; Poonah; Peshwa; Sheila; Hereford; Sohpia Joakim; Newcastle; Merchantman; North; Foyle; Bothwell Castle; Prinz Alexander; Nagpore; Ellora; Tulear; Calcutta; Dana Letchimy; Acacia; Jules et Maria; Russell; Royal Irish; Glen Caladh; Harmonie; Don Jacinto; Speedwell; Vestal; Amizade; Esperance; Flor de Dieu; Sullamuttz; Julian; Futte Islam; Africana; Gylding; Gulianar; Flor de Mar |
People | Wingfield, Edward; Earl of Derby (Smith-Stanley, Sir Edward); Herbert, Sir Robert George Wyndham; Ashley, Evelyn; Lord Kimberley (Wodehouse, John); Lord Carnarvon (Herbert, Henry Howard Molyneux); Ommanney, Sir Montagu Frederick |
Keywords | accounts, audit, ventilation, journey conditions, Indian Emigration Bill, Indian Immigration Bill, quarantine, adultery, emigration scheme, female emigration, shipwreck, assisted emigration, paupers, destitution, land grant, Irish emigration, legislation, labour, sugar, plantation, death, health, sickness, cholera, epidemic, Lascar, Tyser & Co., Hosea Festival, religion, riot, Anti-Slavery Society |
Language | English; French |
Document(s) linked to |
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1884. Volume 1. Eastern and Australian Despatches Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1884. Volume 2. British Guiana and Trinidad Despatches Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1884. Volume 3. Jamaica and Windward Islands Despatches Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1884. Volume 4. Correspondence, Original, Secretary of State. Despatches: Leeward Islands and Miscellaneous. Foreign Office Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1884. Volume 6. Agents (Except Crown Agents), Individuals and Surgeons |
Copyright | Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK |