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Thandamoorthy

Kunnathoor, North Arcot

Father
Vellamoonjee
Kunnathoor, North Arcot
Indentured ancestor
Thandamoorthy
male · Kunnathoor, North Arcot
The crossing
Origin
Kunnathoor
North Arcot
Ship
UMFULI XVI
no. 151176
Year
1888
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Thandamoorthy’s family came from Kunnathoor, 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 Thandamoorthy or Vellamoonjee?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Kunnathoor, North Arcot?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1888)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMFULI XVI, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Kunnathoor

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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