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Arumoogam

Sennakalapoliem, Coimbatore

Father
Muthu Gounden
Sennakalapoliem, Coimbatore
Indentured ancestor
Arumoogam
male · Sennakalapoliem, Coimbatore
The crossing
Origin
Sennakalapoliem
Coimbatore
Ship
UMVOTI XXIII
no. 38173
Year
1889
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Arumoogam’s family came from Sennakalapoliem, Coimbatore 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 Arumoogam or Muthu Gounden?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Sennakalapoliem, Coimbatore?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1889)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMVOTI XXIII, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Sennakalapoliem

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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