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Kavary

Tirudur, Coimbatore

Father
Kaliappa Gounden
Tirudur, Coimbatore
Indentured ancestor
Kavary
female · Tirudur, Coimbatore
The crossing
Origin
Tirudur
Coimbatore
Ship
JOHN ALLAN
no. 33031
Year
1884
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Kavary’s family came from Tirudur, Coimbatore 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 Kavary or Kaliappa Gounden?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Tirudur, Coimbatore?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1884)
  • Any family memory of a ship named JOHN ALLAN, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Tirudur

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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Kavary 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.