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Kolan

Pandasa Nallore, South Arcot

Father
Ammasi
Pandasa Nallore, South Arcot
Indentured ancestor
Kolan
male · Pandasa Nallore, South Arcot
The crossing
Origin
Pandasa Nallore
South Arcot
Ship
UMZINTO XIX
no. 73342
Year
1898
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Kolan’s family came from Pandasa Nallore, 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.

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 Kolan or Ammasi?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Pandasa Nallore, South Arcot?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1898)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMZINTO XIX, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Pandasa Nallore

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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