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Title Registers of Correspondence, Orders, Statistics, etc., and Miscellaneous List of Ships Chartered, 1847-1875
Date 1847-1875
Document Type Shipping Papers
Reference CO 386/179
Library / Archive The National Archives
Collection Name Colonial Office: Land and Emigration Commission, etc.
Description Register of migrant ships chartered by the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners, listing the names and destinations of migrant ships, the names of brokers, dates of contracts, numbers embarked, the contract rate per adult, and occasional minutes. The first part of the volume largely covers migrant ships bound for Britain's Antipodean colonies, and the second half covers vessels carrying indentured 'coolie' migrants. An index of ships is included at the end of the volume.
Series Description This series contains original correspondence, entry books and registers of the Agent General for Emigration, the South Australian Commissioners and the Land and Emigration Commission. Amongst the miscellaneous contents are registers of births and deaths of emigrants at sea 1854-1869, lists of ships chartered 1847-1875, registers of surgeons appointed 1854-1894, and volumes of The Colonial Gazette 1838-1842.
Biographical Note / History A Colonial Land and Emigration Commission was created in 1840 to undertake the duties of two earlier and overlapping authorities which were both under the supervision of the Secretary of State. These were the Colonisation Commissioners for South Australia, established under an Act of 1834, and the Agent General for Emigration, appointed in 1837. The new commission dealt with grants of land, the outward movement of settlers, the administration of the Passengers' Acts of 1855 and 1863 and, from 1846 to 1859, the scrutiny of colonial legislation. In 1855 it became the Emigration Commission. In 1873 the administration of the Passengers' Acts was transferred to the Board of Trade. The commission's powers were gradually given up to the larger colonies as they obtained self-government, and after 1873 its only duties were the control of the importation of Indian indentured labour into sugar-producing colonies and it was abolished in 1878.
Theme(s) Politics, Legislation and Governance; Ships and Shipping Lines
Country (from) Great Britain; India; Sierra Leone; St Helena
Country (to) New Zealand; Australia; St Vincent; St Lucia; British Guiana; Natal; India; South Africa; Grenada; Falkland Islands
Places Tasmania, Western Australia, South Australia, Australia
Ports London, Plymouth, Southampton, Liverpool, Birkenhead, England; Madras, Calcutta, India; Port Phillip, Victoria, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality English; European; Indian; African
Ships Ticonderoga; Australia; Ellenborough; Lloyds; Lord Raglan; Hyderabad; Royal Saxon; Adelaide; Earl Grey; Castle Eden; Nelson; Lady Peel; Victoria; Trafalgar; Panama; Blonde; Agincourt; Oriental; Fatima; Emigrant; Kate; William and Mary; Blenheim; Nugget; Dirigo; Clara; Clarendon; Atalanta; Persia; Tartar; Ganges; Rohilla; Ailsa; Java
Keywords shipping, indentured labour, finance, money, child migration, assisted emigration, slavery, Liberated Africans, coolie, administration
Language English
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