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Archival family tree · South African Tamil roots

Subramanian

Trichinopoly Cusbah, Trichinopoly

Father
Sangilia Pillay
Trichinopoly Cusbah, Trichinopoly
Indentured ancestor
Subramanian
male · Trichinopoly Cusbah, Trichinopoly
The crossing
Origin
Trichinopoly Cusbah
Trichinopoly
Ship
QUATHLAMBA IV
no. 37108
Year
1888
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Subramanian’s family came from Trichinopoly Cusbah, 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 Subramanian or Sangilia Pillay?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Trichinopoly Cusbah, Trichinopoly?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1888)
  • Any family memory of a ship named QUATHLAMBA IV, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Trichinopoly Cusbah

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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Subramanian 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.