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Arumuga Nadar

Nagachy, Tanjore

Father
Appavoo Nadar
Nagachy, Tanjore
Indentured ancestor
Arumuga Nadar
male · Nagachy, Tanjore
The crossing
Origin
Nagachy
Tanjore
Ship
UMKUZI XXV
no. 128612
Year
1876
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Arumuga Nadar’s family came from Nagachy, 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 Arumuga Nadar or Appavoo Nadar?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Nagachy, Tanjore?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1876)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMKUZI XXV, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Nagachy

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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