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Kuppan

Kukkandi, North Arcot

Father
Kanthan
Kukkandi, North Arcot
Indentured ancestor
Kuppan
male · Kukkandi, North Arcot
The crossing
Origin
Kukkandi
North Arcot
Ship
UMZINTO XLI
no. 125463
Year
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Kuppan’s family came from Kukkandi, 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 Kuppan or Kanthan?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Kukkandi, North Arcot?
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMZINTO XLI, or a passage to Natal around then?
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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.

More families from Kukkandi

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.

Privacy — no living person’s details are ever shown in public

Kuppan 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.