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Santhiammal

Mandavally Street, Madras

Father
Lutchmana Naik
Mandavally Street, Madras
Indentured ancestor
Santhiammal
female · Mandavally Street, Madras
The crossing
Origin
Mandavally Street
Madras
Ship
UMFULI IX
no. 136350
Year
1878
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Santhiammal’s family came from Mandavally Street, Madras 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 Santhiammal or Lutchmana Naik?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Mandavally Street, Madras?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1878)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMFULI IX, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Mandavally Street

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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