Karuppa Gn, K
Kairunthapodi Amsam, Coimbatore
Karuppa Gn, K’s family came from Kairunthapodi Amsam, Coimbatore 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.
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 Karuppa Gn, K or Avanasi Gn?
- Did family ever mention coming from Kairunthapodi Amsam, Coimbatore?
- Do the dates line up with when your family arrived in Natal? (Record: 1904)
- Any family memory of a ship named UMKUZI XVII, or a passage to Natal around then?
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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.
Karuppa Gn, K 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.