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Online Sourc es

• 1878-1960 UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 at Ancestry - index & images ($)
• 1890-1960 Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960 at Findmypast - index & images ($)
• 1914-1915 German Missionaries in Cameroon Reports, 1914-1915
• LEADING BAPTIST MISSIONARIES IN CAMEROON PROVINCE: THE CAREERS OF CARL BENDER, PAUL GEBAUER, AND GEORGE DUNGER
• Christian Missionaries: Cameroon

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• British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, Cameroon, index and images ($)
• British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, Africa, index and images ($)

• British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages, Cameroon , index and images ($)
• British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages, Africa, index and images ($)

• British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials, index and images ($)

Emigration and Immigration

Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or coming into (immigrating) a country. For Finland, emigration information is usually found in passport records and passenger lists. The information in these records generally includes the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, and destinations and their places of origin.

Background

• Germany began to establish roots in Cameroon in 1868, when the Woermann Company of Hamburg built a warehouse. It was built on the estuary of the Wouri River. Later Gustav Nachtigal made a treaty with one of the local kings to annex the region for the German emperor.
• The German Empire claimed the territory as the colony of Kamerun in 1884 and began a steady push inland. The Germans ran into resistance with the native people who did not want the Germans to establish themselves on this land.
• Under the influence of Germany, commercial companies were left to regulate local administrations. These concessions used forced labour of the Africans to make a profit. The labour was used on banana, rubber, palm oil, and cocoa plantations. They initiated projects to improve the colony's infrastructure, relying on a harsh system of forced labour, which was much criticized by the other colonial powers.[22]
• With the defeat of Germany in World War I, Kamerun became a League of Nations mandate territory and was split into French Cameroons and British Cameroons in 1919. France integrated the economy of Cameroon with that of France and improved the infrastructure with capital investments and skilled workers, modifying the colonial system of forced labour.
• The British administered their territory from neighbouring Nigeria.
• On 1 January 1960, French Cameroun gained independence from France under President Ahmadou Ahidjo. On 1 October 1961, the formerly British Southern Cameroons gained independence by vote of the UN General Assembly and joined with French Cameroun to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon, a date which is now observed as Unification Day, a public holiday.

For Further Reading

• Pallottine mission to Kamerun

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