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Ramsamy Gounden

Sundakoinathore, Coimbatore

Father
Annamasay Gounden
Sundakoinathore, Coimbatore
Indentured ancestor
Ramsamy Gounden
male · Sundakoinathore, Coimbatore
The crossing
Origin
Sundakoinathore
Coimbatore
Ship
CONGELLA XXXIII
no. 85169
Year
1901
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Ramsamy Gounden’s family came from Sundakoinathore, Coimbatore 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 Ramsamy Gounden or Annamasay Gounden?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Sundakoinathore, Coimbatore?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1901)
  • Any family memory of a ship named CONGELLA XXXIII, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Sundakoinathore

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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