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Title Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1882. Volume 4. Offices and Companies
Date 2 Jan 1882 - 1 Jan 1883
Document Type Correspondence; Manuscript
Reference CO 384/141
Library / Archive The National Archives
Collection Name War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence.
Description Various correspondence regarding migration sent to the British government. The material covers topics such as the movement of Indian labourers around the West Indian colonies, the plight of destitute labourers and migrants, the use of ventilators on labourer ships and the emigration of the Irish to Canada. Also discussed are several acts, the diet and conditions of workers in the Colonies and shipwrecks.
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) Arrivals: Ports and Early Experiences; Politics, Legislation and Governance; Remigration
Country (from) Great Britain; Ireland; Mauritius; Seychelles; British Guiana; South Africa; Jamaica; Cuba; Réunion; Fiji; Australia; St Lucia; India; Trinidad; Grenada; Guadalupe; Surinam; St Vincent; Egypt
Country (to) Canada; Mauritius; Seychelles; British Guiana; South Africa; Jamaica; Cuba; Réunion; Fiji; Australia; St Lucia; India; Trinidad; Grenada; Guadalupe; Surinam; St Vincent; Egypt
Places Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa; Queensland, Australia; Bengal, Simla, India; Demerara, British Guiana; Dublin, Ireland; Suez Canal, Egypt
Ports Madras, Calcutta, India; Natal, South Africa
Nationality English; Indian; Irish; French; Polynesian
Ships Francis; Poonah; Marion; Oncle Felix; Bengollynn; Rohilla; Plassy; North; Ellora; Newcastle; Lightning; Jura; British Nation; Sheila; Bann; Foyle; Jumna; Ailsa; British Statesman; Lee; The Bruce; Syria; Canada; Glenroy; Ganges; Howrah; Earl Granville; Bayard; Berar
People Earl Granville (Leveson-Gower, Granville George); Lord Kimberley (Wodehouse, John); Duke of Devonshire (Compton Cavendish, Spencer); Viscount Cranbrook (Gawthorne-Hardy, Gawthorne); Broome, Sir Frederick Napier; Courtney, Leonard; Ashley, Evelyn; Wingfield, Edward
Keywords warship, repatriation, shipwreck, quinine, diet, journey conditions, Thiers' Automatic Ship Ventilator, Irish Land Act, land grant, destitution, Indian Emigration Bill, emigration scheme, Irish emigration, free passage, assisted passage, skilled migration, labour, wages
Language English
Document(s) linked to Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1882. Volume 1. Eastern and Australian Despatches
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1882. Volume 2. British Guiana and Trinidad Despatches
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1882. Volume 3. Jamaica, Windward Islands and Miscellaneous Despatches
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1882. Volume 5. Agents, Individuals and Surgeons [Part 1]
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1882. Volume 5. Agents, Individuals and Surgeons [Part 2]
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1882. Volume 5. Agents, Individuals and Surgeons [Part 3]
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1882. Volume 5. Agents, Individuals and Surgeons [Part 4]
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