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Lingappa Naidu

Avasur, Chingleput

Father
Potty Naidu
Avasur, Chingleput
Indentured ancestor
Lingappa Naidu
male · Avasur, Chingleput
The crossing
Origin
Avasur
Chingleput
Ship
UMKUZI XXV
no. 128731
Year
1876
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Lingappa Naidu’s family came from Avasur, 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.

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 Lingappa Naidu or Potty Naidu?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Avasur, Chingleput?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1876)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMKUZI XXV, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Avasur

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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Lingappa Naidu 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.