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Sawri Moothoo

Porathacoode, Trichinopoly

Father
Antony Moothoo
Porathacoode, Trichinopoly
Indentured ancestor
Sawri Moothoo
male · Porathacoode, Trichinopoly
The crossing
Origin
Porathacoode
Trichinopoly
Ship
DUNPHAILIE CASTLE V
no. 34046
Year
1885
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Sawri Moothoo’s family came from Porathacoode, Trichinopoly 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 Sawri Moothoo or Antony Moothoo?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Porathacoode, Trichinopoly?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1885)
  • Any family memory of a ship named DUNPHAILIE CASTLE V, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Porathacoode

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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Sawri Moothoo 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.