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Murugasen

High Road, Semmancheri, Semmancheri, Madras

Father
Munisami
High Road, Semmancheri, Semmancheri, Madras
Indentured ancestor
Murugasen
male · High Road, Semmancheri, Semmancheri, Madras
The crossing
Origin
High Road, Semmancheri
Semmancheri, Madras
Ship
UMKUZI IX
no. 90780
Year
1902
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Murugasen’s family came from High Road, Semmancheri, Semmancheri, 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 Murugasen or Munisami?
  • Did family ever mention coming from High Road, Semmancheri, Semmancheri, Madras?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1902)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMKUZI IX, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from High Road, Semmancheri

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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