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Nallasellum

Settikkulam?, Trichinopoly

Father
Unknown
Settikkulam?, Trichinopoly
Indentured ancestor
Nallasellum
male · Settikkulam?, Trichinopoly
The crossing
Origin
Settikkulam?
Trichinopoly
Ship
JOHN ALLAN
no. 32905
Year
1884
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Nallasellum’s family came from Settikkulam?, 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 Nallasellum or Unknown?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Settikkulam?, Trichinopoly?
  • 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 Settikkulam?

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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Nallasellum 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.