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Chinnana Gounden

Kadadicuppam, North Arcot

Father
Govinda Gn
Kadadicuppam, North Arcot
Indentured ancestor
Chinnana Gounden
male · Kadadicuppam, North Arcot
The crossing
Origin
Kadadicuppam
North Arcot
Ship
UMLAZI XXXVI
no. 135658
Year
1878
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Chinnana Gounden’s family came from Kadadicuppam, North 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 Chinnana Gounden or Govinda Gn?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Kadadicuppam, North Arcot?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1878)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMLAZI XXXVI, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Kadadicuppam

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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