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Kundasami

Kallakwichy, Tinnevelly

Father
Suppa Pillai
Kallakwichy, Tinnevelly
Indentured ancestor
Kundasami
male · Kallakwichy, Tinnevelly
The crossing
Origin
Kallakwichy
Tinnevelly
Ship
UMKUZI III
no. 78919
Year
1900
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Kundasami’s family came from Kallakwichy, 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.

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 Kundasami or Suppa Pillai?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Kallakwichy, Tinnevelly?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1900)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMKUZI III, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Kallakwichy

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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Kundasami 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.