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Angammal

Udamalpet, Coimbatore

Father
Rangai Gounden
Udamalpet, Coimbatore
Indentured ancestor
Angammal
female · Udamalpet, Coimbatore
The crossing
Origin
Udamalpet
Coimbatore
Ship
PONGOLA XVI
no. 55955
Year
1894
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Angammal’s family came from Udamalpet, 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 Angammal or Rangai Gounden?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Udamalpet, Coimbatore?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1894)
  • Any family memory of a ship named PONGOLA XVI, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Udamalpet

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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Angammal 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.