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Devasagayam, G

Halls Road Mettucharry, No 7, No 7, Madras

Father
Kallappan
Halls Road Mettucharry, No 7, No 7, Madras
Indentured ancestor
Devasagayam, G
male · Halls Road Mettucharry, No 7, No 7, Madras
The crossing
Origin
Halls Road Mettucharry, No 7
No 7, Madras
Ship
UMKUZI XXI
no. 116123
Year
1860
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Devasagayam, G’s family came from Halls Road Mettucharry, No 7, No 7, 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 Devasagayam, G or Kallappan?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Halls Road Mettucharry, No 7, No 7, Madras?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1860)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMKUZI XXI, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Halls Road Mettucharry, No 7

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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