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Marimuthi Padachi

Thadakalankoil Shiyali, Tanjore

Father
Muruga Padachi
Thadakalankoil Shiyali, Tanjore
Indentured ancestor
Marimuthi Padachi
male · Thadakalankoil Shiyali, Tanjore
The crossing
Origin
Thadakalankoil Shiyali
Tanjore
Ship
CONGELLA XLVIII
no. 130963
Year
1877
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Marimuthi Padachi’s family came from Thadakalankoil Shiyali, Tanjore 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 Marimuthi Padachi or Muruga Padachi?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Thadakalankoil Shiyali, Tanjore?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1877)
  • Any family memory of a ship named CONGELLA XLVIII, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Thadakalankoil Shiyali

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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