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Komarasamy

Conjeeveram, Chingleput

Father
Murugappa Mdy.
Conjeeveram, Chingleput
Indentured ancestor
Komarasamy
male · Conjeeveram, Chingleput
The crossing
Origin
Conjeeveram
Chingleput
Ship
MARS II
no. 24893
Year
1881
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Komarasamy’s family came from Conjeeveram, 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 Komarasamy or Murugappa Mdy.?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Conjeeveram, Chingleput?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1881)
  • Any family memory of a ship named MARS II, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Conjeeveram

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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Komarasamy 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.