David Sam
No 57 Lascar St.,St Thomas Mt, St Thomas Mt, Chingleput
David Sam’s family came from No 57 Lascar St.,St Thomas Mt, St Thomas Mt, Chingleput 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.
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 David Sam or David?
- Did family ever mention coming from No 57 Lascar St.,St Thomas Mt, St Thomas Mt, Chingleput?
- Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1884)
- Any family memory of a ship named UMHLOTI VI, or a passage to Natal around then?
Claim this record to start your family tree — David Sam and David are added instantly, ready for you to extend with living relatives.
Two paths: build your tree if this is your ancestor, or submit evidence to help a South African family verify their village link. See the Village Verification Project.
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.
David Sam 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.