Jessa Damani

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Jessa Damani
Date of Death
  • 1889
Place of Death
Country of death
Place of longest stay
Profession or occupation carriedout for the longest period in life
  • Merchant
Where-City or Country
Children

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"Jessa Damani was a Kh ōjā merchant who split his time between his two wives.

He died in Zanzibar with his second wife, a Khōjā named Hurbayee, who lived in Zanzibar and with whom he had a son and a daughter aged nine and six, respectively. His first wife was a Swahili woman; they lived in Kilwa Kivinje and had two sons, aged sixteen and fourteen at the time of his death."