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Kandasawmy

Triplicane, Madras

Father
Valayutha Mood.
Triplicane, Madras
Indentured ancestor
Kandasawmy
male · Triplicane, Madras
The crossing
Origin
Triplicane
Madras
Ship
QUATHLAMBA IV
no. 37259
Year
1888
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Kandasawmy’s family came from Triplicane, Madras 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 Kandasawmy or Valayutha Mood.?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Triplicane, Madras?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1888)
  • Any family memory of a ship named QUATHLAMBA IV, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Triplicane

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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Kandasawmy 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.