Tracing my ANCESTORS

havi05

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to find out where my ancestors came from, basically,
they were indentured labourers who sailed under the "Birtish Raj" to Mauritius.

I have the name of the village, the "zillah" and "pergunnah". I don't know what those are.

Would you know what they are and I know the following:

Village: LOLLGUNGE
ZILLAH: Ranchee
Pergunnah: DOYRAL

Does anybody know about these. The village name would have probably change cause these were found in really old documents in the 1800s.

Please help, thanks!

capt_mahajan

It is probably Lalgunj.

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sego

Check all the free resources on the internet,Indian government sites, British Colonial offices in England and if the free ones don't work check with Indiroots.com they are the best and 100% accurate.

Hyderabadi

Zillah is District, and Pargana an administrative area within the district. Also called/similar to Taluk, Taluka, Mandal, etc., elsewhere. More on Pargana here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pargana

vko

That village you are looking for could be in Ranchi disrict in Jharkhand state. Lalgunj is a very common name, there is one in Bihar too (Vaishali dist).

In India, Zilla is equivalent to District. Pargana was a former administrative unit no longer in use. Almost all states, districts, etc. have gone through several revisions in past century.

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