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Kothanda Mudaliar

Kaveripakkam, North Arcot

Father
Cundasamy Mudaliar
Kaveripakkam, North Arcot
Indentured ancestor
Kothanda Mudaliar
male · Kaveripakkam, North Arcot
The crossing
Origin
Kaveripakkam
North Arcot
Ship
UMZINTO XLIV
no. 132167
Year
1878
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Kothanda Mudaliar’s family came from Kaveripakkam, 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.

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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 Kothanda Mudaliar or Cundasamy Mudaliar?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Kaveripakkam, North Arcot?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1878)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMZINTO XLIV, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Kaveripakkam

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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