Jaffer Bhimji

Mr. Jaffer Bhimji

Town of birth

• Ormara

Country of birth

• British India

Place of Death

• Karachi

Country of death

• British India

Source of Information

• Archives of Sindh Culture Government of Pakistan List of Court Records 1893-

Place of longest stay

• Gwadar
• Karachi (1894)

Profession or occupation carriedout for the longest period in life

• Merchant Trader
• Grain Store Owner
• Fish Merchant

Where-City or Country

• Sultanate of Oman
• Pakistan

Family tree

Parents

Bhimji Kothari

Children

Fatma Jaffer Bhimji

Gulsaker Jaffer Bhimji

Hussein Jaffer Bhimji 1895–1964

Khatija Jaffer Bhimji

Kulsum Jaffer Bhimji

Moosa Jaffer Bhimji

Ramzan Jaffer Bhimji

Rehmat Jaffer Bhimji

Sonbai Pir Subzali Ramzanali 1946

Born in Ormara

Bhimji Kothari(Born in Jamnagar).

Jaffer Bhimji was a fish trader in the Omani-run port of Gwader in Baluchistan.

The Imperial Gazetteer of India” (Calcutta, 1908, p. 186) writes that Gwadar was an open roadstead and port in Makran, about 290 miles from Karachi, with a population of 4350 persons in 1903. It is also learnt from the Ismaili journals of Bombay that the population of the Ismailis in Gwadar was about 500 around 1905.

He later moved to bustling British port-city of Karachi, where he was reputed to have supplied "sole" fish to the Ismaili Imam, Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah, Agakhan III at his home in Tekri, Karachi.

He is mentioned in the following court case from 1894:

1368 District Court of Karachi 168 of 1894 Jaffir Bhimji vs Haroon s/o Ishake Rs.1200/- 10/08/1894 23/07/1895 English and Sindhi

Archives.sindhculture.gov.pk/list-of-court-record/