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Pakirsami

Nagoor, Tanjore

Father
Sadia Pillai
Nagoor, Tanjore
Indentured ancestor
Pakirsami
male · Nagoor, Tanjore
The crossing
Origin
Nagoor
Tanjore
Ship
UMKUZI XXII
no. 118229
Year
1864
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Pakirsami’s family came from Nagoor, Tanjore 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 Pakirsami or Sadia Pillai?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Nagoor, Tanjore?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1864)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMKUZI XXII, or a passage to Natal around then?
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Two paths: build your tree if this is your ancestor, or submit evidence to help a South African family verify their village link. See the Village Verification Project.

More families from Nagoor

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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Pakirsami 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.