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Munisami

Madavaram, Chingleput

Father
Nyna Pillai
Madavaram, Chingleput
Indentured ancestor
Munisami
male · Madavaram, Chingleput
The crossing
Origin
Madavaram
Chingleput
Ship
UMFULI III
no. 121802
Year
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Munisami’s family came from Madavaram, Chingleput 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 Munisami or Nyna Pillai?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Madavaram, Chingleput?
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMFULI III, 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 Madavaram

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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Munisami 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.