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Sella Muthu

Uttathoor, Trichinopoly

Father
Mari Servaigaren
Uttathoor, Trichinopoly
Indentured ancestor
Sella Muthu
male · Uttathoor, Trichinopoly
The crossing
Origin
Uttathoor
Trichinopoly
Ship
UMLAZI XXII
no. 104566
Year
1904
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Sella Muthu’s family came from Uttathoor, Trichinopoly 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 Sella Muthu or Mari Servaigaren?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Uttathoor, Trichinopoly?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1904)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMLAZI XXII, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Uttathoor

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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