in 1877, disputes broke out among his descendants. In the late 1890s, they went to court, where it was decided that no one in the family had the rights as the successor to the sultanate and the land at Kampong Glam should revert to the state [Tengku Mahmud vs. Tengku Ali, Straits Settlements Laws Report 1897 (Vol. 5)]. Malay kings of Singapore (1299–1396 AD) Sri Tri Buana (Sang Nila Utama) (1299–1347) Raja Kecil Besar (Paduka Seri Wikrama Wira) (1348–1362 (?) ) Raja Muda (Paduka Seri Rana Wikrama) (1363–1374 (?) ) Damia Raja (Paduka Seri Maharaja) (1375–1386 (?) ) Parameswara (Paduka Seri Iskandar Shah) (1388 or 1390 (?) –1397) Malay kings of Singapore (1699–1835 AD) Bendahara Sultan Abdul Jalil Riayat Shah IV (Sultan of Riau-Lingga-Pahang) (1699–1718) Abdul Jalil Rahmat Shah (Raja Kecil) (Sultan of Riau-Lingga-Pahang) (1718–1722) Sultan Sulaiman Badrul Al-Alam Shah (Sultan of Johore-Riau-Lingga-Pahang) (1722–1760) Sultan Mahmud Riayat Shah III (Sultan of Johore-Pahang) (1761–1812) Sultan Abdul Rahman (Sultan of Lingga) (1812–1832) (Placed on the throne instead of his older brother Hussein, supported by Bugis.) Sultan Hussein Shah (Sultan of Johor) (1819–1835) (Recognised by the British as the rightful Sultan of Johore.) Migration of Malays to Singapore after 1819 When Raffles arrived in Singapore, there were already thousands of indigenous Malays living there. The waters of Telok Blangah, the Kallang River and other rivers had been home to the Orang Laut or Sea Nomads for a very long time. There were also Malay settlements along the Kallang River Basin and the Singapore River. Turnbull reported that there was an estimated 1,000 people living in Singapore. There were about 500 Orang Kallang, 200 Orang Seletar, 150 Orang Gelam, 100 Orang Lauts, 20–30 Malays who were the followers of Temenggong Abdul Rahman. In the first census taken in 1824, it was revealed that the Malays (including the Bugis) then made up 60.9 per cent of the total population of 10,683. The 1826 census shows 4,790 Malays, 1,242 Bugis, and 267 Javanese out of a total population 13,750. Malay subgroups Most Singaporean Malays are descended from different ethnic groups that are found throughout the Malay Archipelago. Most notable are the Orang Laut and Malays (the original inhabitants of Singapore), Javanese, Boyanese, Bugis, Minangkabaus, Banjarese and the Bataks. The Orang Laut (Sea Nomads) Also known as Orang Pulau/Orang Singapura According to Sopher (1977), the Orang Kallang, Orang Seletar, Orang Selat and Orang Gelam were the Orang