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Jones, J

St Thomas Mt, Chingleput

Father
Isiek
St Thomas Mt, Chingleput
Indentured ancestor
Jones, J
male · St Thomas Mt, Chingleput
The crossing
Origin
St Thomas Mt
Chingleput
Ship
UMKUZI XIII
no. 100302
Year
1903
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Jones, J’s family came from St Thomas Mt, 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 Jones, J or Isiek?
  • Did family ever mention coming from St Thomas Mt, Chingleput?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1903)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMKUZI XIII, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from St Thomas Mt

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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Jones, J 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.