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Archival family tree · South African Tamil roots

Kunnamma

Vireejigunaik, Chingleput

Father
Subba Mattan
Vireejigunaik, Chingleput
Indentured ancestor
Kunnamma
female · Vireejigunaik, Chingleput
The crossing
Origin
Vireejigunaik
Chingleput
Ship
CONGELLA XXXIV
no. 87215
Year
1901
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Kunnamma’s family came from Vireejigunaik, 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 Kunnamma or Subba Mattan?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Vireejigunaik, Chingleput?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1901)
  • Any family memory of a ship named CONGELLA XXXIV, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Vireejigunaik

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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Kunnamma 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.