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Parumaul Gounden

Vada Mahadevamangala M, North Arcot

Father
Nagappa Gounden
Vada Mahadevamangala M, North Arcot
Indentured ancestor
Parumaul Gounden
male · Vada Mahadevamangala M, North Arcot
The crossing
Origin
Vada Mahadevamangala M
North Arcot
Ship
UMZINTO XXVIII
no. 94804
Year
1902
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Parumaul Gounden’s family came from Vada Mahadevamangala M, 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 Parumaul Gounden or Nagappa Gounden?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Vada Mahadevamangala M, North Arcot?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1902)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMZINTO XXVIII, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Vada Mahadevamangala M

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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