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Santhyee

Paralapoor, Trichinopoly

Father
Arokiam
Paralapoor, Trichinopoly
Indentured ancestor
Santhyee
female · Paralapoor, Trichinopoly
The crossing
Origin
Paralapoor
Trichinopoly
Ship
UMZINTO XXXIX
no. 121078
Year
1866
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Santhyee’s family came from Paralapoor, Trichinopoly 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 Santhyee or Arokiam?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Paralapoor, Trichinopoly?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1866)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMZINTO XXXIX, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Paralapoor

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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Santhyee 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.