Skip to content
Archival family tree · South African Tamil roots

Kattikodatha Raman Nair

Alangad Prav. Kottapuram Cara, Travancore

Father
Govindan Nair
Alangad Prav. Kottapuram Cara, Travancore
Indentured ancestor
Kattikodatha Raman Nair
male · Alangad Prav. Kottapuram Cara, Travancore
The crossing
Origin
Alangad Prav. Kottapuram Cara
Travancore
Ship
UMLAZI XXV
no. 110896
Year
1905
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Kattikodatha Raman Nair’s family came from Alangad Prav. Kottapuram Cara, Travancore 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 Kattikodatha Raman Nair or Govindan Nair?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Alangad Prav. Kottapuram Cara, Travancore?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1905)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMLAZI XXV, or a passage to Natal around then?
Ask elders on WhatsApp
Is this your ancestor?

Claim this record to start your family tree — Kattikodatha Raman Nair and Govindan Nair are added instantly, ready for you to extend with living relatives.

This is my family — build my tree

Two paths: build your tree if this is your ancestor, or submit evidence to help a South African family verify their village link. See the Village Verification Project.

More families from Alangad Prav. Kottapuram Cara

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.

Privacy — no living person’s details are ever shown in public

Kattikodatha Raman Nair 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.