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Rama Reddy

Pillarikuppam, North Arcot

Father
Thippa Reddy
Pillarikuppam, North Arcot
Indentured ancestor
Rama Reddy
male · Pillarikuppam, North Arcot
The crossing
Origin
Pillarikuppam
North Arcot
Ship
PONGOLA XXXIII
no. 80915
Year
1900
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Rama Reddy’s family came from Pillarikuppam, 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 Rama Reddy or Thippa Reddy?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Pillarikuppam, North Arcot?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1900)
  • Any family memory of a ship named PONGOLA XXXIII, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Pillarikuppam

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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Rama Reddy 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.