Local tales and writing, as well as more formal recorded history, are indicative of intermarriages between families of Meedhoo island and those of Feydhoo (which was then occupied by the ancestors of present-day Maradhoo-Feydhoo).

A Feydhoo island chief during the mid 1800s, Katheeb Kaleyge (an honorific moniker that refers to his position) married Karankaleyge Mariyam,[2] who is a descendant of Sultan Ali VII of the short-lived Isdhoo dynasty.

This was part of then Prime Minister Ahmed Zaki's negotiations with British colonial powers, who had established a military base in the atoll.

Those people were placed in the houses of Maradhoo inhabitants, and given handsome food rations by the Royal Air Force, before half the island was given to them.

Maradhoo-Feydhoo is today a district of the greater Addu City region, the second most populous urban centre in the Maldives.