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Arul Dasan

Yachnur, Chingleput

Father
Isac
Yachnur, Chingleput
Indentured ancestor
Arul Dasan
male · Yachnur, Chingleput
The crossing
Origin
Yachnur
Chingleput
Ship
UMKUZI XX
no. 115302
Year
1905
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Arul Dasan’s family came from Yachnur, Chingleput 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 Arul Dasan or Isac?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Yachnur, Chingleput?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1905)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMKUZI XX, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Yachnur

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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