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Field name | Value |
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Title | Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1889. Volume 3. Offices, Companies and Crown Agents |
Date | 12 Jan 1889 - 9 Sep 1890 |
Document Type | Correspondence; Manuscript; Report |
Reference | CO 384/174 |
Library / Archive | The National Archives |
Collection Name | War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence |
Description | Despatches dealing with Indian labour in the West Indies, including requests for labourers, export duty on sugar, defects within passenger ships and provision of food. Also includes details on Chinese and European emigration schemes to South America. |
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) | Motives for Emigration; Journey Conditions; Politics, Legislation and Governance; Remigration |
Country (from) | India; China; Great Britain; Ireland |
Country (to) | Mexico; Borneo; Portugal; United States; Indonesia; Ecuador; Trinidad; Jamaica; Grenada; British Guiana; Mauritius; South Africa; Argentina; West Indies; Australia; Canada; Brazil; New Zealand; St Lucia; Fiji; St Helena |
Places | Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania, Australia; Hawaii, United States; Azores, Portugal; Sumatra, Indonesia |
Ports | Madras, Calcutta, India; Cape Town, Natal, South Africa; Portsmouth, England |
Nationality | Indian; Chinese; Irish; English |
Ships | Moy; Allanshaw; Jumna; Foyle; British Peer; Volga; Grecian; Ganges; Rhone; Gilroy; Brenda; Erne |
People | Nourse, James; Laing, Dr; Hughes, Dr; Clarkson, Dr Booth C |
Keywords | legislation, government, Coolie, finance, remigration, wages, labour, labourer, medical staff, agent, surgeon, marriage, plantation, health and sickness, death, crofter, postal service, soldier, shipping, emigration, exploitation, accommodation, children, sugar, export, customs, quarantine, food, cargo, poverty, religion |
Language | English |
Document(s) linked to |
Emigration and Coolie Immigration, 1889. Volume 1. Despatches (Except British Guiana and Trinidad) Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1889. Volume 2. Despatches British Guiana and Trinidad Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1889. Volume 4. Agents (Except Crown Agents), Individuals and Surgeons |
Copyright | Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK |