Esmail Shivji Gillani

Esmail Shivji Gillani

Country of birth

• India

Date of Birth

• 1906

Date of Death

• 1978

Place of Death

• Toronto

Name of Cemetery and plot no

• York Cemetery
• Toronto
• Canada

Place of longest stay

• Toronto

Profession or occupation carriedout for the longest period in life

• Dukawala

Where-City or Country

• Kenya

Family tree

Parents

Shivji Gillani

Siblings

Mulji Gillani

Partners

Nurbanu Amarshi Datoo

Children

Tajdin Esmail Gillani 1946

Born in 1906

Shivji Gillani.

Esmail Gillani father had a small store in Rangve, near Homa Bay. When he grew up, his father got him a small duka- a piri piri bizari store to sell small necessities.

In 1950-51, he moved to Kisumu where he worked for the cotton buying Khoja Ismaili business of Mawji Ismail near Kibostown.