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Senthy Nadan

Koonjana Parai, Tinnevelly

Father
Suppa Nadan
Koonjana Parai, Tinnevelly
Indentured ancestor
Senthy Nadan
male · Koonjana Parai, Tinnevelly
The crossing
Origin
Koonjana Parai
Tinnevelly
Ship
CONGELLA XVII
no. 56642
Year
1894
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Senthy Nadan’s family came from Koonjana Parai, Tinnevelly 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 Senthy Nadan or Suppa Nadan?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Koonjana Parai, Tinnevelly?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1894)
  • Any family memory of a ship named CONGELLA XVII, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Koonjana Parai

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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Senthy Nadan 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.