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Parumaul Naik

Elamangalam, Chingleput

Father
Kanniyappa Naik
Elamangalam, Chingleput
Indentured ancestor
Parumaul Naik
male · Elamangalam, Chingleput
The crossing
Origin
Elamangalam
Chingleput
Ship
UMKUZI XXV
no. 128569
Year
1876
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Parumaul Naik’s family came from Elamangalam, 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 Parumaul Naik or Kanniyappa Naik?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Elamangalam, Chingleput?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1876)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMKUZI XXV, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Elamangalam

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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