The labour contracts under which our forefathers worked varied, but as a rule, they were 'bound' to work on a designated estate for five years in return for a wage, housing, clothing, food and medical care. After five years they could choose between owning ten acres of land or ten pounds sterling or they could, after a further five or ten years of 'industrial residence', get a free passage back to India.
 

After completing his indenturship in Guyana, Raaju opted for the ownership of land in compensation for the five years he worked at Vryheid's Lust sugar estate. It was known that Raaju took up farming and later on saved up enough money to purchase more land at Mahaicony. He also owned cattle and horses. According to Noley, "At the age of 8, I remember my grandfather [Juman] recalling that his family had eventually owned a number of land and properties, cattle, horses and two rice mills". He was considered well-off and successful in terms of material accomplishments.

Raaju settled at Lot 2, Dundee, Mahaicony. He and his wife (name unknown) had five children. Since we have little or no knowledge of their children except for Juman, we will assume for the time being that Juman was the eldest son until we resolve the details of Raaju's other children (research is needed in this respect). At the moment we are not sure whether or not Raaju was married before he arrived in Guyana. We know that Juman was born in 1883 during his indentureship between 1880-1890. It could very well be that Juman may have been born in Grenada or Raaju's family (wife+children) could have arrived in Guyana earlier than 1886 as originally thought.

Raaju being the eldest son, is of tremendous importance from a genealogical perspective, in that, based on a few key assumptions: (a) He was the eldest of the siblings (he was the eldest brother, but, were there any older sisters?) (b) Most males in our family in the 1800's were married at age 18 and got their first born about the age 19-20. With this in mind, we can deduce some important dates in our family history; i.e. Raaju was born around 1864 and died around 1929. His father, whose name is currently not known, was born around 1845 and died around 1910 assuming he lived an average age of 65 years in those days.