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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1883. Volume 4. Offices, Companies and Agents (Except Crown Agents) [Part 4] |
| Date | 4 Jan 1883 - 31 Jan 1884 |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Manuscript |
| Reference | CO 384/146 |
| Library / Archive | The National Archives |
| Collection Name | War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence. |
| Description | The last of a four part document containing correspondence concerning the administration of the Colonies. This part contains letters to and from the emigration agents in the West Indies. Much of the correspondence concerns the movement of labour around the Colonies, such as recruitment, remigration, journey conditions on transport ships and legislation. There are also several reports on the accounts of the emigration agencies. |
| 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; British Guiana; Trinidad; South Africa |
| Country (to) | South Africa; India; British Guiana; Fiji; Mauritius; Trinidad; St Lucia; Grenada; Jamaica; St Vincent; Réunion; Surinam; Guadalupe; Martinique |
| Places | Cape of Good Hope, South Africa; Demerara; British Guiana; London, England; Ganjam, Odisha, India |
| Ports | Calcutta, Madras, India; Natal, South Africa |
| Nationality | Indian; English |
| Ships | North; Bayard; Boyne; Silhet; Merchantman; Howrah; Ganges; Ellora; Plassy; Berar; Rohilla; Scottish Admiral; Hesperides; South Esk; Hereford; The Bruce; Sheila; Blue Jacket; White Eagle; Hamilla Mitchell; Queen of the East; Gipsy Bride; Gitana; Clarence; Wellesley; Enmore; Ailsa; St Kilda; Aldergrove; Lightning; Malabar; Newcastle; Poonah |
| People | Firth, H.A.; Wingfield, Edward; Earl of Derby (Smith-Stanley, Sir Edward); Herbert, Sir Robert George Wyndham; Ashley, Evelyn |
| Keywords | supplies, rations, land, death, health, sickness, surgeon, rations, clothing, accounts, 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 2. British Guiana and Trinidad 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 5. Crown Agents, Individuals and Surgeons |
| Copyright | Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK |
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