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Madasawmi Kudamban

Kandasamipuram, Tinnevelly

Father
V Tuppa Kudamban
Kandasamipuram, Tinnevelly
Indentured ancestor
Madasawmi Kudamban
male · Kandasamipuram, Tinnevelly
The crossing
Origin
Kandasamipuram
Tinnevelly
Ship
UMKUZI XXI
no. 115833
Year
1860
Arrived
Natal, South Africa
The origin village

Madasawmi Kudamban’s family came from Kandasamipuram, 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 Madasawmi Kudamban or V Tuppa Kudamban?
  • Did family ever mention coming from Kandasamipuram, Tinnevelly?
  • Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1860)
  • Any family memory of a ship named UMKUZI XXI, or a passage to Natal around then?
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More families from Kandasamipuram

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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