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Cuppusami

Rantham, North Arcot

Father
Thamaloor Naiken
Rantham, North Arcot
Indentured ancestor
Cuppusami
male · Rantham, North Arcot
The crossing
Origin
Rantham
North Arcot
Ship
UMXINTO II
no. 51668
Year
1892
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Cuppusami’s family came from Rantham, 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 Cuppusami or Thamaloor Naiken?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Rantham, North Arcot?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1892)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMXINTO II, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Rantham

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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