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Thathiah Naik

Paramakottay, Tinnevelly

Father
Gopaul Naik
Paramakottay, Tinnevelly
Indentured ancestor
Thathiah Naik
male · Paramakottay, Tinnevelly
The crossing
Origin
Paramakottay
Tinnevelly
Ship
CONGELLA XXXVIII
no. 95709
Year
1902
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Thathiah Naik’s family came from Paramakottay, Tinnevelly 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 Thathiah Naik or Gopaul Naik?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Paramakottay, Tinnevelly?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1902)
  • Any family memory of a ship named CONGELLA XXXVIII, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Paramakottay

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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Thathiah Naik 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.