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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1881. Volume 5. Offices and Companies and Crown Agents |
| Date | 4 Jan 1881 - 6 Jun 1882 |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Manuscript |
| Reference | CO 384/136 |
| Library / Archive | The National Archives |
| Collection Name | War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence. |
| Description | Correspondence from various parties to the British government regarding migration around the Colonies. Includes material regarding German emigration and grants of land, movement of indentured labourers around the Colonies and several drafts of legislation regulating this movement, as well as general administration such as staff appointments, salaries, pensions and financing. |
| 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; Politics, Legislation and Governance; Remigration |
| Country (from) | Great Britain; Ireland; Germany; China; Brazil; Mauritius; Cuba; British Honduras; British Guiana; St Vincent; South Africa; Fiji; Trinidad; Grenada; Jamaica; Réunion; St Thomas; Brazil; Malaysia; Singapore; Sri Lanka |
| Country (to) | United States of America; Australia; New Zealand; Canada; Brazil; Mauritius; Cuba; British Honduras; British Guiana; St Vincent; South Africa; Fiji; Trinidad; Grenada; Jamaica; Réunion; St Thomas; Brazil; Malaysia; Singapore; Sri Lanka |
| Places | New South Wales, Queensland, Australia; Mana, Brazil; Berlin, Germany; Washington, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States; Simla, Bengal, Assam, Chittagong, India; Dublin, Ireland; Demerara, British Guiana |
| Ports | Calcutta, Madras, India; Liverpool, London, England; Hong Kong, China; Natal, South Africa |
| Nationality | Indian; Chinese; English; Irish; African; German |
| Ships | Malabar; Ellora; Leonidas; Caroline; Sheila; Berar; Jura; Howrah; Bengollyun; Syria; Lightning; Plassy; North; Bayard; Rohilla; Newcastle; Poonah |
| People | Baron Pauncefote (Pauncefote, Sir Julian); Earl Granville (Leveson-Gower, Granville George); Lord Kimberley (Wodehouse, John); Grant Duff, Monstuart Elphintstone; Duke of Devonshire (Compton Cavendish, Spencer); Lord Glenelg (Grant, Charles); Berkeley, Sir George; Wingfield, Edward |
| Keywords | German anti-land grant, crown land, pension, legislation, Thiers' Automatic Ship Ventilator, labour, labourer |
| Language | English; German |
| 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 6. Agents (Except Crown Agents), Individuals and Surgeons |
| Copyright | Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK |
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