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Parthasarathy, A

Thomas Street, Madras

Father
Appavu
Thomas Street, Madras
Indentured ancestor
Parthasarathy, A
male · Thomas Street, Madras
The crossing
Origin
Thomas Street
Madras
Ship
UMLAZI XVIII
no. 93985
Year
1902
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Parthasarathy, A’s family came from Thomas Street, 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 Parthasarathy, A or Appavu?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Thomas Street, Madras?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1902)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMLAZI XVIII, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Thomas Street

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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Parthasarathy, A 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.