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Field name | Value |
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Title | Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1893. Volume 3. Agents, Individuals and Surgeons |
Date | 13 Jul 1892 - 8 Jan 1894 |
Document Type | Correspondence; Manuscript |
Reference | CO 384/188 |
Library / Archive | The National Archives |
Collection Name | War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence |
Description | Dispatches covering the transportation of indentured Indian labourers to and from the West Indies, including British Guiana, Trinidad, Jamaica and St Lucia. Correspondence relates to facilities and supplies on board ships, Indian savings and surgeon superintendent reports. Also includes miscellaneous correspondence on encouraging Swiss emigration to Canada and emigration from Sri Lanka to German East Africa. |
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; Motives for Emigration; Religion, Ethnic Identity and Community Relations |
Country (from) | India; Sri Lanka; Great Britain; Switzerland |
Country (to) | Mauritius; Trinidad; British Guiana; Jamaica; St Lucia; Fiji; Canada |
Places | Cape Town, South Africa; Demerara, British Guiana |
Ports | Calcutta, India |
Nationality | Sinhalese; Indian; Swiss |
Ships | Lena; Jumna; Sheila; Moy; Emo; Hereford; SS Bolivia; SS Sandia; Avon; Avoca; Elbe; British Peer; Volga; Pergola; Congella |
People | Viscount Goderich (Robinson, Frederick John); Nourse, James; Tennant, Sir Charles |
Keywords | shipping, travel, colony, government, quarantine, Coolie, medicine, medical staff, surgeon, food, animals, scabies, disease, health and sickness, children, education, cargo, salt, labourer, reverse migration, marriage, polygamy, hospital, death, suicide |
Language | English |
Document(s) linked to |
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1893. Volume 1. Eastern, Australian and British Guiana Despatches Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1893. Volume 2. Correspondence – Secretary of State. Despatches: West Indies and Miscellaneous Offices and Companies |
Copyright | Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK |