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Muthamma

Esoor Near Chinnampet, Chingleput

Father
Arunachala Pandaram
Esoor Near Chinnampet, Chingleput
Indentured ancestor
Muthamma
female · Esoor Near Chinnampet, Chingleput
The crossing
Origin
Esoor Near Chinnampet
Chingleput
Ship
CONGELLA XVII
no. 56682
Year
1894
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Muthamma’s family came from Esoor Near Chinnampet, 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 Muthamma or Arunachala Pandaram?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Esoor Near Chinnampet, Chingleput?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1894)
  • Any family memory of a ship named CONGELLA XVII, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Esoor Near Chinnampet

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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Muthamma 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.