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Title Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1883. Volume 2. British Guiana and Trinidad Despatches
Date 2 Jan 1883 - 4 Mar 1884
Document Type Correspondence; Manuscript
Reference CO 384/144
Library / Archive The National Archives
Collection Name War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence.
Description Correspondence sent from the governors of British Guiana and Trinidad to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, primarily regarding the administration of emigration and remigration of Indian and Chinese labourers. Other subjects covered include murder amongst the Indian population in the Colonies, and general admin regarding staff, wages, pensions and staff appointments.
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) Remigration; Departures: Port Conditions and Organisation
Country (from) India; China; British Guiana; Barbados; United States of America; St Lucia; South Africa; Jamaica; Trinidad; St Helena
Country (to) India; China; British Guiana; Barbados; United States of America; St Lucia; South Africa; Jamaica; Trinidad; St Helena
Places Demerara, British Guiana
Ports Calcutta, India; Natal, South Africa; Georgetown, Demerara, British Guiana
Nationality Chinese; Indian; English
Ships Silhet; Rohilla; Berar; North; Bayard; Ganges; Erato; Jumna; Bann; Hesperides; Southesk; Boyne; Brenda; Ellora
People Wingfield, Edward; Herbert, Sir Robert George Wyndham; Ashley, Evelyn; Earl of Derby (Smith-Stanley, Sir Edward); Irving, Sir Henry Turner; Young, William A G; Freeling, Lieutenant Governor Sandford
Keywords marriage, execution, health, sickness, pension, wages, coal, will, death, alcohol, opium, adultery, Tyser & Co., labour, labourers
Language English
Document(s) linked to Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1883. Volume 1. Eastern and Australian Despatches
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1883. Volume 3. Jamaica, Windward and Leeward Islands and Miscellaneous Despatches
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1883. Volume 4. Offices, Companies and Agents (Except Crown Agents) [Part 1]
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1883. Volume 4. Offices, Companies and Agents (Except Crown Agents) [Part 2]
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1883. Volume 4. Offices, Companies and Agents (Except Crown Agents) [Part 3]
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1883. Volume 4. Offices, Companies and Agents (Except Crown Agents) [Part 4]
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1883. Volume 5. Crown Agents, Individuals and Surgeons
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