Reports on Seamen
Our research often leads us to incredible sources within Archives which can help us identify individuals who lived in our Port Towns.
One particular source of interest are reports written to the Home Office and Colonial Office, as they often reference names of individuals, addresses and often events, memories of which have remained within families for generations.
In Liverpool, many individuals have relatives who recall being in the local Bridewells, following the race riots of 1919.
Report source is National Archives, Kew: HO 45/11017/377969
With thanks to Suzy Mo, Michael Mahoney and Liverpool Libraries service.
We have chosen to redact the addresses within the report but welcome any enquiries regardign the names listed below. Some names are repeated within the report but have slight differences in what is recorded, therefore we have chosen to record them in their original order.
Liverpool City Head Constable
Home Office 28th June 1919
Report Titled ‘Repatriation of Negroes’ Mentions number who ‘took refuge’ was 700 rather than 437.
List complied is of ‘West Indian and African Negroes’
West African Seamen
Tom Bestman, Tom Africa, Charles Davies, Tom Davies, Thomas Saytor, Frederick Kenny, Peter Rogers, Samuel Hayford, Tom Walker, Tom Freeman, James Grey, John Wesley, Sam Brown, Joseph Maine, Ali Carma, Arthur Davies, Thomas Pratt, James Brown, Tom Jodn, Henry Durring, James Parker, Ben Wallo, Tom Johnson, Mandord Thompson, Tom Peter, David Lewis, James Williams, John Davies. Small Boy, James Wall, William Nimbley, George Pearce, George Ammissah, Frank Smith, Thomas Mensah, William Jacob, James Doe Smith, Tommy Dick, John Nimby, Tango Edwards, Joseph Jackson, John Thomas, James Thompson, John Anderson, Sam Wilkie, Tom Peter, Amida Dean, James Brown, Fine Boy, James Thomas, William Robertson, John Daniels, Peter Jackson, Jack Spursen, Tom Toby, Jim Doe, Edward Jackson, William Williams, John Lewis, Robert Appiah Quaishi, William Morgan, Albert Johnson, John Smith, John Sango, Charles Davies, James Boy, James Sampson, John Archer, Tom Wilkie, Peter Bedoo, Charles Brown, Shank, William Sampson, Rueben Robinson, Robert Ashon, James Cabon, Joe Jackson, John Archibong, John Wesley, Joseph Mann, Alfred LuLu, Tom Bestman, Sydney Davies, William Davies, John Monteiseiro, Joe Wilson, John Lewis, John Dunbar, Thomas Newman, Joseph Turcker, Patrick Henry Johnson, John Thomas Williams, Arthur Faddy, John Nath Finny, Thomas Johnson, John Davies, Thomas Williams, John Master, James Mauie, Thomas Bestman, John Wesley, James Williams, Henry Williams, Dunstan Namegashie, David Hunter, Thomas Johnson, Mandora Thompson, Samuel Nichols, Jack Freeman, Tom Freeman, Alfred Johnson, John Pearse, James Cole, Tom Bessman, Tom Peters, Samuel Agede, Joseph Thomas, Samuel Roberts, Ruben Thomas, Tom Saltwater, Tom Jack, John Wesley, Tom Punch, King Coffee, John Quaynor, George Pearse, James Freeman, Thomas Apple, Joseph Green, Samuel Leomy, George Artley, Jonothan Williams, William Nelson, Thomas Loah, James White, Thomas K Ward, Tom Glasgow, Harry Bassey, Thomas Williams, Toby Duitte, Joseph Anoah, Peter Johnson, Joe Leigh, Johanna Douglas, Charles Brown, Issac Morgan, Jim Doe, John Williams, Alfred George, Tom Brown, Daniel Smart, James Smith, John Williams, James Cole, Enery Day Hula, Samuel Grant, Joseph Dixon, Tom Bestman, Harry Abaidn, Joe Cole, Thomas Reubenson, John Dixon, Tom Bersman, Dan Leno, Charles Grant, Sam Bruce, Issac Daniels, Joseph Kenny, Isaac Menser, Isaac Baranasko, John Mohamedie Zarliah, Tom Toby, Toby Dixon, Richard Roberts, Poor Jack, John Backley, George KIng, Richard Apper, Thomas Johnson, Samuel Cole, Thomas McCauley, Benjamin Leno Pratt, Samuel Johnson, Tom Toby, Edward Tagoe, Tom Teare, Daniel Lewis Benoni (wife Levina Maud Benoni), Ekabo Bula.
West Indian Seamen
Sinclair Greaves, Alexander Mith, Cecil A. Howard, David Mearns, Charles Mackinnon, Oscar Burgess, Richard L Lewis, Charles James, Joseph Williams, Wilbert Holden, Ernest Lawrence, Charles Stewart, Tommy Atkin, Joseph Roberts, Nathaniel Wicham, Colin McKenzie, Alexander Elatts, Charles Mackinnon, William Antley, William Tull, James Smith, Ephraim Moc Kenzie, Arthur Williams, Arthur Jones, Emmanuel Clark, George Bernard, George Williams, Beresford Griffiths, Jess Moore, Benjamin Padmore, Edwin Webb, Gladstone Gill, Armstead Risby, George Nightingale, Ernest Vincent, Darrell Ovide, Sefus Dublin, Julian Boyce, Fitz Archer, Henry Wilson, David Dallas, David Baker, James Callander, Charles Smith, Uriah Walters, Roy Lana, Walter Lyte, Thomas Archer, Clarence Harris, Thaddeus Brown, Robert Lynch, John Jones, Charles Spence, Amos Sayers, Thomas St. Aimee, George Harper, Bruce Laurence, Ernest Laurence, Charles Thompson, Egbert Anderson, Jervis Thompson, Hubert Lewis, Samuel Kelly, Hubert Roee, Joseph Lewis, Ephraim Jackson, William Cooper, Oscar Martin, Memia Thomas, Rudolph Williams, Isaac cross, John Thomas Russell, John Sawyer, Marcel Elody, Henry Bownes, Percy Bovell, Isaac Ennes, Alfred Nichols, Clifford Saunders, Elisha Sterling, Fitzgerald Griffiths, Allen Richard, Rupert Brown, Jeremiah Anderson, Robert Davies, Joseph Hall, James Simmons, Francis Jones, Alonzo Downes, Theadore Smith, Michael Montague, Daniel Russell, William Francis, Anthony Morgan, Joseph Jones, Nelson Kendal.