Amendment to Main Post

I have amended the main post with the following. I trust you can keep up because  I am not always sure I can.

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He lived with three women in the colony. His principal wife Phoorja an Arab Muslim woman from Bagdad who was most likely the mother to Bibi Arab.

His secondary wives were a Malay and a Chinese called Ahoy-Che Oi thought to be a Tanka Boat woman and to whom he had a son ‘Hajee Mahomed’.

Another publication states that the land and property

Mahomed aquired in the 1840’s was still in his family over 100 years later. His family were joined by marraige to Shaikh Moosdeens family when his Daughter Jara married Abdul

Rahim Moosdeen and his grandaughter Zaiton (Cherry) Alarakia married Shaikh Moosdeens grandson Abu Baker Moosdeen.

 

His extended family consisted of :

 

Bibi as shown above and the following from his First Wife Phoorja M Arab b? d16.10.1887

 

Seleria M Arab a daughter b1840 d25.12.1920

Jara a daughter b 1861 d 6.5.1907. She was married to A.R Moosdeen.

Sons Goolam hoosien(Goolam Hoosein or Goolam Hussein) and Nassin Mahomed

 

Mahomed Arab (the younger) who married Noora M b1878 d2.4.1922

Yar Mahomed Arab who married Maryan

Siban Mahomed Arab married to Mariam

Halima M.Arab a daughter b? d 1914

 

Nasser Mahomed ????-???? was working as a broker at Rumjahn & Arab in 1898***I thinks this is probably Nassin as the name Nasser only appears once in the Carl Smith Records whereas Nassin is mentioned multiple times.

Abdoolrahman Mahomed ????-????

 

From his Malay wife :

 

Zahra and Shula (aka Sulaha) both daughters and from his

Chinese wife Amoy (Che Oi) he had a son Hajee M.Arab born in 1875 and who died at age 21.(Whlst looking through the muslim burial records I found another Hagee M. Arab listed as female and aged forty four having been born in 1878)

 

Adopted children Mohadeen (son), Hadimar, Assye and Surala (daughters) are mentioned in his last will and testament. The mothers of these adopted children are not known.

 


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