Our family home
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The Mangalath tharavadu is at Vaipur, in Mallappally, Pathanamthitta district — and the house stands opposite the Kulangarakkavu Sree Bhuvaneswari temple.
Bhuvaneswari Devi of Kulangarakkavu is our family deity, and the temple sits directly across the road from the tharavadu. The land runs from the house towards the Manimala river.
Fourteen branch families have come out of this house over the generations. Nobody knows exactly how old the family is. Finding that out is one of the reasons this record is being made.
Today the family lives all over — Kerala, other parts of India, and abroad. Many of us no longer know how we are related to one another. This site is meant to answer that, and to hold what the oldest among us still remember before it is lost.
- Where
- Vaipur, Mallappally taluk, Pathanamthitta — near the Manimala river
- Family deity
- Sree Bhuvaneswari, Kulangarakkavu temple, across the road from the house
- Branches
- Fourteen main branch families, each descended from one mother
- Record started
- 2026
What we still do not know
- How old is the tharavadu? Two hundred years is the usual answer; the elders say three hundred.
- When did each of the fourteen branches separate, and why?
- Do any partition deeds survive in the family? They would name people and dates.
- Does the temple hold records that name the tharavadu or its karanavar?