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Renga Reddy

Marungur, South Arcot

Father
Chinna Reddy
Marungur, South Arcot
Indentured ancestor
Renga Reddy
male · Marungur, South Arcot
The crossing
Origin
Marungur
South Arcot
Ship
PONGOLA XXVIII
no. 72879
Year
1898
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Renga Reddy’s family came from Marungur, South 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.

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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 Renga Reddy or Chinna Reddy?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Marungur, South Arcot?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1898)
  • Any family memory of a ship named PONGOLA XXVIII, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Marungur

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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