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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1891. Volume 3. Offices and Individuals |
| Date | 8 Aug 1879 - 30 Dec 1892 |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Manuscript |
| Reference | CO 384/182 |
| Library / Archive | The National Archives |
| Collection Name | War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence |
| Description | Correspondence of the Foreign Office, House of Commons, India Office, Crown Agents and private companies regarding emigration of mainly Indian, Chinese, Japanese labourers. Topics cover emigration ship conditions, ship regulation, warning over dangerous countries to emigrate to, ordinances and reports of emigration agents. |
| 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 |
| Country (from) | China; Italy; India; Great Britain; Japan |
| Country (to) | Peru; Canada; Trinidad; Mauritius; Australia; British Guiana; South Africa; British North Borneo; St Lucia; Fiji; Jamaica; Tasmania; Leeward Islands; Malaysia; Singapore |
| Places | Trinidad; Mauritius; Queensland, Tasmania, Australia; Canada; British Guiana; South Australia; Labuan; British North Borneo; St Lucia; Fiji; Jamaica; Leeward Islands; St Helena; Malaysia; Singapore; Ecuador |
| Ports | Liverpool, England; Natal, South Africa |
| Nationality | Italian; Chinese; Japanese; Indian |
| Ships | Bruce; Foyle; S.S. Roumania; Main; Regius; Sheila; Brenda; Lena; Pongola; Hereford; Danube; Congella |
| People | Holland, Lord Henry; Baron Pirbright (de Worms, Baron Henry); Nourse, James; Comins, D.D; Carrington, J.W.; Pickering, W.A.; Parrott, J.W.; Sir Herbert, R. |
| Keywords | emigration, labour, agriculture, ships, ports, passenger, agent, finance, health and sickness, women, children, Coolie, industry, crime, government, colony, sugar, caste system, fishing and fishermen, orphans, provisions, regulations, ship, measles |
| Additional Information | The following foliated pages were not captured as they were blank: Folio 161 / 182 / 300 / 333 / 426 / 446 / 563 / 611 / 639 / 656 / 666 / 714 / 717 |
| Language | English |
| Document(s) linked to |
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration) 1891. Volume 1. Despatches: Eastern, Australian, Miscellaneous and British Guiana Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1891. Volume 2. Despatches: West Indies |
| Copyright | Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK |
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