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Archival family tree · South African Tamil roots

Aleemaloo

Covalam, Chingleput

Father
Chellan
Covalam, Chingleput
Indentured ancestor
Aleemaloo
female · Covalam, Chingleput
The crossing
Origin
Covalam
Chingleput
Ship
ZENOBIA
no. 20366
Year
1878
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Aleemaloo’s family came from Covalam, 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 Aleemaloo or Chellan?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Covalam, Chingleput?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1878)
  • Any family memory of a ship named ZENOBIA, or a passage to Natal around then?
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Two paths: build your tree if this is your ancestor, or submit evidence to help a South African family verify their village link. See the Village Verification Project.

More families from Covalam

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.

Privacy — no living person’s details are ever shown in public

Aleemaloo 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.