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Annamalai

Kallapulyar, North Arcot

Father
Subben
Kallapulyar, North Arcot
Indentured ancestor
Annamalai
male · Kallapulyar, North Arcot
The crossing
Origin
Kallapulyar
North Arcot
Ship
UMKUZI XXV
no. 128549
Year
1876
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Annamalai’s family came from Kallapulyar, 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 Annamalai or Subben?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Kallapulyar, North Arcot?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1876)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMKUZI XXV, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Kallapulyar

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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