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Subrayen

Karungali Kuppam, South Arcot

Father
Palli Kudathan
Karungali Kuppam, South Arcot
Indentured ancestor
Subrayen
male · Karungali Kuppam, South Arcot
The crossing
Origin
Karungali Kuppam
South Arcot
Ship
UMFULI XII
no. 141118
Year
1881
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Subrayen’s family came from Karungali Kuppam, South Arcot 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 Subrayen or Palli Kudathan?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Karungali Kuppam, South Arcot?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1881)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMFULI XII, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Karungali Kuppam

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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Subrayen 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.