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Chinna Vadoochee

Chinappaputty, Salem

Father
Parea Vadi
Chinappaputty, Salem
Indentured ancestor
Chinna Vadoochee
male · Chinappaputty, Salem
The crossing
Origin
Chinappaputty
Salem
Ship
VIMEIRA II
no. 21834
Year
1879
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Chinna Vadoochee’s family came from Chinappaputty, Salem 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 Chinna Vadoochee or Parea Vadi?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Chinappaputty, Salem?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1879)
  • Any family memory of a ship named VIMEIRA II, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Chinappaputty

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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Chinna Vadoochee 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.