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Subramanian

Thottaipalayam, North Arcot

Father
Kristnappa Pillai
Thottaipalayam, North Arcot
Indentured ancestor
Subramanian
male · Thottaipalayam, North Arcot
The crossing
Origin
Thottaipalayam
North Arcot
Ship
CONGELLA XXXVII
no. 94378
Year
1902
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Subramanian’s family came from Thottaipalayam, 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 Subramanian or Kristnappa Pillai?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Thottaipalayam, North Arcot?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1902)
  • Any family memory of a ship named CONGELLA XXXVII, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Thottaipalayam

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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Subramanian 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.