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Mangathoy

Nallavanpalem, South Arcot

Father
Munigadu
Nallavanpalem, South Arcot
Indentured ancestor
Mangathoy
female · Nallavanpalem, South Arcot
The crossing
Origin
Nallavanpalem
South Arcot
Ship
UMFULI IX
no. 136527
Year
1879
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Mangathoy’s family came from Nallavanpalem, 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 Mangathoy or Munigadu?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Nallavanpalem, South Arcot?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1879)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMFULI IX, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Nallavanpalem

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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Mangathoy 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.