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Baksh travels from London to Fiji to trace her ancestry

Baksh travels from London to Fiji to trace her ancestry

By Naveel Krishant
13/05/2023
Nadia Baksh

The quest to discover her ancestry and family roots has brought Nadia Baksh from London to Fiji for the very first time.

Baksh who was born in London and is the daughter of an Indo-Fijian man says her father’s family were girmityas.

Baksh says her father was born in 1941 and was brought up in a sugarcane plantation adding when they were growing up, her father used to talk about the experience of the girmityas.

She also believes that her great-grandmother was in the Syria shipwreck.

Baksh says she guesses her father decided to leave Fiji for better opportunities.

Baksh was at Albert Park going through the records at the National Archives set up to help her in her quest to trace her ancestry.


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