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Archival family tree · South African Tamil roots

Ellammal

Sathoor, North Arcot

Father
Arunagiry Thambiran
Sathoor, North Arcot
Indentured ancestor
Ellammal
female · Sathoor, North Arcot
The crossing
Origin
Sathoor
North Arcot
Ship
CONGELLA XXII
no. 64115
Year
1896
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Ellammal’s family came from Sathoor, North Arcot 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 Ellammal or Arunagiry Thambiran?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Sathoor, North Arcot?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1896)
  • Any family memory of a ship named CONGELLA XXII, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Sathoor

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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Ellammal 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.