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Ramanacharry

Malakanday, Chingleput

Father
Konary Acharry
Malakanday, Chingleput
Indentured ancestor
Ramanacharry
male · Malakanday, Chingleput
The crossing
Origin
Malakanday
Chingleput
Ship
PONGOLA LIV
no. 117357
Year
1863
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Ramanacharry’s family came from Malakanday, 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 Ramanacharry or Konary Acharry?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Malakanday, Chingleput?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1863)
  • Any family memory of a ship named PONGOLA LIV, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Malakanday

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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Ramanacharry 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.