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Karim Khan

Ranipet, North Arcot

Father
Hyath Khan
Ranipet, North Arcot
Indentured ancestor
Karim Khan
male · Ranipet, North Arcot
The crossing
Origin
Ranipet
North Arcot
Ship
CONGELLA XXIII
no. 65444
Year
1897
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Karim Khan’s family came from Ranipet, North Arcot district. Living relatives may still be there — a voter-roll lookup can name them, and the modern village page shows land records and families we already track.

Verify with your elders

Colonial ship-clerks often mangled Tamil names. Before treating this as your ancestor, ask the oldest person in your family:

  • Was there a great-great-grandfather named Karim Khan or Hyath Khan?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Ranipet, North Arcot?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1897)
  • Any family memory of a ship named CONGELLA XXIII, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Ranipet

Source: theiii.in Natal indenture register (digitised ship record). Names and places are the colonial spellings as recorded; verify against family memory before treating a lineage as certain.

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Karim Khan appears here only because this is a historical indenture record (1860–1911) — the person named sailed over a century ago. Family trees, voter matches and any living-relative data sit behind a login and are visible only to the account owner they belong to.