PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Goday
families belong to the Perike
(Perike Rajulu / Puragiri Kshatriya) caste and the Chatrasala Mallu
gotram. Their history starts with Chenna Malla Bhupaludu
who lived around 1650. The Goday family (second richest
after Vizianagram) was one of the most ancient and highly
respected families in the Northern Circars of Southern
India, tracing its origin to Janyaraju, second son of
Giriraju, a King of the Ekshavaku Dynasty of the Solar
Race, and founder of the city of Bhogavathi. Other estates
founded by the Goday family, include, Embaram, Kuppili,
Korupolu, Gottipalle, Godecharla, Bharinikam, Munagapaka,
Sriram Puram and Sher Muhammed Puram. Estate holders were
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- Chenna Malla Bhupaludu, married and had issue. He
lived about 1650.
- Akkanna Bhupati, married and had issue, two sons.
- Suranna [@ Pedda Surya Rao], he was a Mughal
sardar and built the Harihara temple in Wakatippa;
married Rani Gumpamma, and had issue, five sons.
- Uppanna Rao
- Sarvesha Rao
- Jagga Rao [aka Jagga Raya] (qv)
- Bhupathi Rao
- Gopalu Rao
- Ramachandrayya Rao
- Sri GODAY JAGGA RAO
I, Zamindar of Anakapalli, born circa 1714,
third son of Sardar Pedda Surya Rao, and his wife, Sri
Rani Gumpamma, married Rani Ankamaba, and had issue,
four sons.
- Sri Surya Rao, youngest son, married Rani
Subadramma, and had issue, one son and two
daughters.
- Sri Pedda Goday Jagga Rao II [Pedda Jagga Raya]
(qv)
- Rani Appaayamma, married Krishnaya Madina, and
had issue.
- Suranna Madina, married (his cousin),
Rani Subadrayamma, born 1781, died 1840,
daughter of Sri Pedda Goday Jagga Rao II, and
his second wife, Sri Rani Subadramma (see
below), and had issue.
- Rani Seetayamma, married into Chevala family.
- Sri PEDDA GODAY
JAGGA RAO II, Zamindar of Anakapalli -/1805;
he served as interpreter in the Machilipatam
Chief-in-council for the British and distinguished
himself in the service of Government; married 1stly,
Sri Rani Krishnamma, she died sp, married
2ndly, Sri Rani Subadramma, and had issue. He died
1805 aged 60 years.
- Sri Rani Subadrayamma, born 1781, a prominent
Telugu poetess; married (her cousin), Suranna
Madina, son of Krishnaya Madina, and his wife, Rani
Appayamamba (see above), and had issue. She died
1840.
- Sri Rani Bangaramma
- Sri Goday Surya Prakasa Rao (qv)
- Sri Rani Lakshminarasayamma
- Sri Goday Bhaskara Rao
- Sri Goday Surya Narayana Rao, 1st Zamindar of
Shermuhammedpuram, born 1792, founded various
charitable institutions, contributed largely to
various public works and and during the famine of
1833, fed a large number of poor in the
neighbourhood of Nellore; married 1stly, Rani
Bangaramamba, daughter of Chevala Jagga Raya,
married 2ndly, Rani (name unknown), married 3rdly, Rani
Seetayamma, and had issue. He died 1853.
- Sri Raja Venkata Jagga Rao (by Rani
Bangaramamba), 2nd Zamindar of Shermuhammedpuram,
born 1817, educated privately in Madras, astronomy
was his passion and he established an observatory
in Vishakha Patnam; married and had issue. He died
1856.
- Rani Achayamma, married Raya Bahadur Ankitham
Venkata Narasinga Rao, 3rd Zamindar of Shermuhammedpuram,
and had issue, one son.
- Sri Maharaja Sir Goday Narayana Gajapathi Rao
Bahadur Garu (by Rani Seetayamma) (qv)
- Sri Rani Ratnayamma, married G. L. Naringa Rao,
and had adoptive issue.
- (A) adoptive daughter, married (as his
third wife), her uncle, Maharaja Sir Goday
Narayana Gajapathi Rao Garu.
- Sri SURYA PRAKASA
RAO, Zamindar of Anakapalli 1805/1841, born
1788, married Sri Janakayamma (qv); and had issue. He
died spm in
1841 aged 53 years.
- Sri Rani
Janakayamma, Zamindarani of Anakapalli
1841/-, married Sri Surya Prakasa Rao (see above).
- Sri Rani Ratnayamma,
Zamindarani of Anakapalli -/-; she died sp.
 Sri Maharaja Sir GODAY NARAYANA Gajapathi Rao
Garu C.I.E, Zamindar of Anakapalli -/1903;
born 1st December 1828 (#1,#2), educated at
Hindu College, Calcutta; Zamindar of 9 Estates,
Anakapalli, Bharinikam and Munagapaka in Vizagapatam
District, in Anakapalle Taluk, Godecharla, Korupolu,
Nakkapalli (sold in three parts, due to arrears of
tribute in 1822), and Srirampuram in Sarvasiddhi
Taluk, Kuppili and Shermuhammedpuram in Chipurupalle
Taluk, Embaram and Gottipalle in Benares, Ganjam and
Godavari Districts; M.L.C. (Madras) 1868/1884; he
established and maintained several schools; he
presented the statue of Her Majesty the Queen Empress
of India to the city of Madras in honour of Her
Majesty's Jubilee in 1887; and made large donations to
many public institutions; he received from His
Holiness the Pope Leo XIII through his Delegate
Apostolic in the East Indies, in 1891, a mosaic
picture as a mark of appreciation of his kindness
shown to the Catholics of Vizagapatam; C.I.E.
[cr.1892], Maharaja [cr. 21.5.1898], Raja [cr.1881], a
Fellow of the University of Madras; in 1894 he was
made a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory
the Great (Civil Class); married 1stly, Sri Maharani
Janaki Amma, daughter of Madina Jagga Rao Garu,
C.S.I., married 2ndly, (name unknown), married
3rdly, his maternal niece, and had issue, two
daughters. He died May 1903.
- Elder daughter [Maharani Lady Gajapati Rao] (qv)
- Sri Rani Sahiba Lakshmi Narasayamma Patta Mahadevi
Garu (second daughter) (by Sri Maharani Janaki
Amma), her children inherited Kuppili, married 19th
May 1897 in Vizagapatam, Madras, Sri Sri Sri Raja
Vyricharla Virbhadra Raju Bahadur Garu of Kurupam, and had
issue. She died in childbirth on 7th July 1901.
- [Maharani Lady Gajapati Rao], Zamindarani of
Anakapalli 1903/-; she inherited Anakapalli,
Bharinikam, Munagapaka, Godecharla and
Srirampuram; married HH Thakore Sahib Shri Dajirajji
Raisinhji of Wadhwan.
She died sp after 1919.
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Sri Jagga Rao, he purchased the village of
Chipurupalle in Chipurupalle Taluk in 1844; married
and had issue, one son.
- Sri Venkata Narayana Rao, Zamindar of Chipurupalle
-/1882; married and had issue, as well as adoptive
issue. He died spm in 1882 when the estate
came under the Court of Wards.
- (A) Daughter, married and had issue.
- Sri Venkata Narayana Rao, adopted by his
grandmother in 1895, comes of age in 1908.
The help of John Duncan McMeekin is gratefully
acknowledged, November 2010.
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