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Munigan

Yettupalli, North Arcot

Father
Ganarigan
Yettupalli, North Arcot
Indentured ancestor
Munigan
male · Yettupalli, North Arcot
The crossing
Origin
Yettupalli
North Arcot
Ship
UMLAZI XXXIX
no. 141302
Year
1881
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Munigan’s family came from Yettupalli, North 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 Munigan or Ganarigan?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Yettupalli, North Arcot?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1881)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMLAZI XXXIX, 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 Yettupalli

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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Munigan 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.