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Bodi Reddi

Chumadapalli Near Kattamaneli, North Arcot

Father
Varthu Reddi
Chumadapalli Near Kattamaneli, North Arcot
Indentured ancestor
Bodi Reddi
male · Chumadapalli Near Kattamaneli, North Arcot
The crossing
Origin
Chumadapalli Near Kattamaneli
North Arcot
Ship
UMZINTO XXXIX
no. 120732
Year
1865
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Bodi Reddi’s family came from Chumadapalli Near Kattamaneli, 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 Bodi Reddi or Varthu Reddi?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Chumadapalli Near Kattamaneli, North Arcot?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1865)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMZINTO XXXIX, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Chumadapalli Near Kattamaneli

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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