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Sinnatha

Koyivandy, Tanjore

Father
Savan
Koyivandy, Tanjore
Indentured ancestor
Sinnatha
male · Koyivandy, Tanjore
The crossing
Origin
Koyivandy
Tanjore
Ship
UMLAZI III
no. 63516
Year
1896
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Sinnatha’s family came from Koyivandy, Tanjore 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 Sinnatha or Savan?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Koyivandy, Tanjore?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1896)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMLAZI III, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Koyivandy

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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Sinnatha 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.