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Karupanna Muthriah

Srirangam?, Trichinopoly

Father
Mottia Muthrian
Srirangam?, Trichinopoly
Indentured ancestor
Karupanna Muthriah
male · Srirangam?, Trichinopoly
The crossing
Origin
Srirangam?
Trichinopoly
Ship
LAUREL III
no. 35208
Year
1887
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Karupanna Muthriah’s family came from Srirangam?, 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 Karupanna Muthriah or Mottia Muthrian?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Srirangam?, Trichinopoly?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1887)
  • Any family memory of a ship named LAUREL III, or a passage to Natal around then?
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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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