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Title | Emigration, General. Offices and Individuals, 1854, Volume 2 |
Date | 2 Jan-15 Dec 1854 |
Document Type | Correspondence; Manuscript |
Reference | CO 384/93 |
Library / Archive | The National Archives |
Collection Name | War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence. |
Description | Correspondence from various government offices concerning the admin, expenditure, accounts and organisation of emigration. Includes material concerning the health of emigrants of American ships with particular reference to cholera, the application and resolution for the formation of an emigration depot at Bristol, and correspondence regarding the Liverpool & Philadelphia Steam Ship Company's exemption from particular United Kingdom emigration laws. |
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; Journey Conditions |
Country (from) | Great Britain; Ireland; Brazil |
Country (to) | United States of America; Canada; Australia; British Guiana |
Places | Quebec, Montreal, Canada; Washington, Boston, New York, Louisiana, United States |
Ports | Bristol, Liverpool, Birkenhead, England; Glasgow, Scotland; Portland, United States; Dublin, Limerick, Cork, Sligo, Londonderry, Conway, Ireland |
Nationality | English; Irish; Scottish |
Ships | Dirigo; Sarah Sands; City of Manchester; City of Glasgow; City of Philadelphia; City of Baltimore; Closina; Primrose; Energy; Triumph; Thebes; Ranger; Elconer; Jane Black; Conway; Sea Nymph; Jessie |
People | Trevelyan, Sir Charles Edward; Merrivale, Herman; Elliot, Thomas Frederick; Peel, Sir Frederick; Murdoch, Thomas William Clinton; Walcott, Stephen; Duke of Newcastle (Pelham-Clinton, Henry Pelham) |
Keywords | shipwreck, cholera, Passengers' Act, trade, Liverpool & Philadelphia Steam Ship Company, journey conditions, health, sickness, surgeons, hospital |
Additional Information | This volume includes searchable printed documents. |
Language | English |
Document(s) linked to |
Emigration, General. Public Offices. Land Board, 1854, Volume 1 |
Printed Documents in this Volume |
Report and Proceedings of the Bristol Chamber of Commerce, at the Annual Meeting of the Members, Held, by Permission, in the Hall of the Society of Merchant Venturers, King-Street, Bristol, on Wednesday, the 25th January, 1854 the President, George Pope, Esquire, in the Chair Bristol as a Depôt and Port of Departure For Emigrants. Evidence Given Before the "Emigrant Ships' Committee" of the House of Commons, on the 29th of May 1854, Copy of Memorial to His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, Colonial Secretary, the Resolution of Bristol Shipowners and Shipbrokers, and of the Replies of the Colonial Office, with Introductory Remarks Liverpool and Philadelphia Steam-ship Company Advertisement and Bill of Fare Steam Communication Monthly From Liverpool to New York, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Charleston, Havana, &c. By Way of Philadelphia |
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