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Koravan Chetty

Pannimadai, Coimbatore

Father
Thaivarandy Chetty
Pannimadai, Coimbatore
Indentured ancestor
Koravan Chetty
male · Pannimadai, Coimbatore
The crossing
Origin
Pannimadai
Coimbatore
Ship
UMFULI IV
no. 125498
Year
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Koravan Chetty’s family came from Pannimadai, 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 Koravan Chetty or Thaivarandy Chetty?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Pannimadai, Coimbatore?
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMFULI IV, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Pannimadai

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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Koravan Chetty 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.