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Muthsami

Ayuramangudi, Tanjore

Father
Kristnan
Ayuramangudi, Tanjore
Indentured ancestor
Muthsami
male · Ayuramangudi, Tanjore
The crossing
Origin
Ayuramangudi
Tanjore
Ship
UMZINTO XXXI
no. 101804
Year
1903
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Muthsami’s family came from Ayuramangudi, Tanjore 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 Muthsami or Kristnan?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Ayuramangudi, Tanjore?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1903)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMZINTO XXXI, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Ayuramangudi

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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Muthsami 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.