Sheriff of St. Thomas, St. Thomas Police Office: Registers of passports for departing individuals

Description

This archive series contains registers of passports issued to individuals departing from St. Thomas harbor in the period 1810-1895. Apart from the date of departure and the names of the passengers the registers also often state the name of the ship, the name of the captain and the destination of the journey.

The task in this archive series is indexing (tagging). This means, that we focus primarily on transcribing personal names, place names and dates. By transcribing these data you will make it easier for others, for instance genealogists, to find a document that contains a certain name they are looking for without transcribing the entire document. Exactly what we would like you to transcribe and how, you will see in the transcription guide.

You find the specific transcription guide for this series here: https://www.sa.dk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/registers-of-passports-for-departing-individuals.pdf

The image shows the town of Charlotte Amalie on St. Thomas around 1825 with its important international harbor. Colorized aquatint by engraver J. Holm after P. Sevel’s image from 1825, “View of St. Thomas” – panorama of St. Thomas from the East, Danish West Indies. Original held at the Maritime Museum of Denmark, Elsinore, image no. 000033042.

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1810 - 1811 86 Klar til indtastning 0 7 93
1813 - 1815 71 Klar til indtastning 0 4 75
1815 - 1824 347 Klar til indtastning 0 5 352
1824 - 1825 227 Klar til indtastning 0 7 234
1828 - 1830 312 Klar til indtastning 0 17 329
1830 - 1834 354 Klar til indtastning 0 4 358
1834 - 1838 282 Klar til indtastning 0 5 287
1839 - 1842 283 Klar til indtastning 0 6 289
1845 - 1853 498 Klar til indtastning 0 4 502
1853 - 1858 320 Klar til indtastning 0 5 325
1859 - 1862 301 Klar til indtastning 0 7 308
1862 - 1865 297 Klar til indtastning 0 15 312
1865 - 1868 267 Klar til indtastning 0 9 276
1868 - 1870 290 Klar til indtastning 0 18 308
1871 - 1873 294 Klar til indtastning 0 20 314
1873 - 1875 149 Klar til indtastning 0 8 157
1875 - 1876 150 Klar til indtastning 0 10 160
1876 - 1878 150 Klar til indtastning 0 7 157
1878 - 1881 305 Klar til indtastning 0 6 311
1881 - 1885 307 Klar til indtastning 0 8 315
1886 - 1889 206 Klar til indtastning 0 7 213
1889 - 1895 267 Klar til indtastning 0 38 305