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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1881. Volume 6. Agents (Except Crown Agents), Individuals and Surgeons |
| Date | 1 Jan 1881 - 12 Apr 1882 |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Manuscript |
| Reference | CO 384/137 |
| Library / Archive | The National Archives |
| Collection Name | War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence. |
| Description | Correspondence regarding the general administration of the Colonies from agents, individuals and surgeons, both in the United Kingdom and abroad. The material includes lists of passengers approved for emigration, applications for various vacancies and reports on arrivals and journey conditions of labourer ships. |
| 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; Remigration |
| Country (from) | Great Britain; Jamaica; British Guiana; St Vincent; Trinidad; India; Mauritius; Fiji; Grenada; British Honduras; Malaysia; Singapore; St Lucia; Guadalupe; Surinam; Réunion; Barbados; St Helena |
| Country (to) | Canada; Australia; South Africa; New Zealand; Jamaica; British Guiana; St Vincent; Trinidad; India; Mauritius; Fiji; Grenada; British Honduras; Malaysia; Singapore; St Lucia; Guadalupe; Surinam; Réunion; Barbados; St Helena |
| Places | Cape of Good Hope, South Africa; New South Wales, Australia; Demerara, British Guiana; Queenstown, New Zealand; Geneva, Switzerland; Bengal, India |
| Ports | Southampton, London, England; Calcutta, Madras, India; Port Louis, Mauritius; Natal, South Africa |
| Nationality | English; Irish; Indian; Scottish |
| Ships | Dunrobin Castle; Pretoria; Warwick Castle; African; Garth Castle; Duart Castle; Danube; Drummond Castle; Nubian; Lightning; Howrah; Jumna; Newcastle; Berar; Brenda; Ellora; Sophia Joakim; Plassy; North; Chetah; Canada; Umvoti; Bann; Sheila; Blue Jacket; White Eagle; Hamilla Mitchell; Queen of the East; Gipsy Bride; Gitana; Ganges; Clarence; Wellesley; Enmore; Rohilla; St Kilda; Aldergrove; Silhet; Malabar; Bengollyen; Poonah |
| People | Lord Kimberley (Wodehouse, John); Grant Duff, Monstuart Elphintstone; Herbert, Sir Robert George Wyndham G W; Courtney, Leonard; Ashley, Evelyn; Wingfield, Edward |
| Keywords | Union Steam, assisted passage, free passage, land grant, leper, health, sickness, disease, accounts, expenses, diet, tax, emigration scheme, Thiers' Automatic Ship Ventilator, labour, labourers |
| Language | English |
| Document(s) linked to |
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1881. Volume 1. Mauritius Despatches Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1881. Volume 2. Hong Kong, Straits, Australian and British Guiana Despatches Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1881. Volume 3. Trinidad Despatches Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1881. Volume 4. Jamaica, Windward and Leeward Islands and Miscellaneous Despatches Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1881. Volume 5. Offices and Companies and Crown Agents |
| Copyright | Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK |
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