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Chininu Naick

Kistnamkannai, Chingleput

Father
Muniappa Naick
Kistnamkannai, Chingleput
Indentured ancestor
Chininu Naick
male · Kistnamkannai, Chingleput
The crossing
Origin
Kistnamkannai
Chingleput
Ship
CONGELLA XLVIII
no. 130994
Year
1877
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Chininu Naick’s family came from Kistnamkannai, 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.

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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 Chininu Naick or Muniappa Naick?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Kistnamkannai, Chingleput?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1877)
  • Any family memory of a ship named CONGELLA XLVIII, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Kistnamkannai

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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Chininu Naick 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.