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Arvamurthy

Vannikulan, Tinnevelly

Father
Veeraperumalsamy
Vannikulan, Tinnevelly
Indentured ancestor
Arvamurthy
male · Vannikulan, Tinnevelly
The crossing
Origin
Vannikulan
Tinnevelly
Ship
UMZINTO XLI
no. 125466
Year
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Arvamurthy’s family came from Vannikulan, Tinnevelly 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 Arvamurthy or Veeraperumalsamy?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Vannikulan, Tinnevelly?
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMZINTO XLI, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Vannikulan

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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Arvamurthy 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.