Moloo Hirji

Moloo Hirji

Town of birth

• Nagalpur

Country of birth

• India

Date of Birth

• 1863

Date of Death

• 1941

Place of Death

• Tukuyu

Place of longest stay

• Pangani
• Tukuyu

Profession or occupation carriedout for the longest period in life

• Import/Export

Where-City or Country

• Tanzania

Family tree

Parents

Hirji Rajpar Kalyan

Siblings

Bandali Hirji Rajpal 1965

Suleman Hirji Rajpar

Partners

Kulsumbai Moledina Hirji 1904

Children

Gulamhusein Moloo Hirji 1930–1980

Shamsudin Moloo Hirji

Born in 1863 Nagalpur

Hirji Rajpar Kalyan(Born in Nagalpur).

The German Colonial Handbook 1903 lists "Moloo Wirji" as one of local Indian firms, dealing in import/export of of some of these goods: ivory, cattle, furs, rhino horns,, hippopotamus, kopra, black corn, corn, rice, sesame, European swap goods, resident in Pangani in 1903. He is listed in the German Colonial Handbook as being still in Pangani in 1908.

According to the oral family history, Moloo Hirji and other Indian traders were persuaded by Captian Tom von Prince, a German officer to settle in the newly colonised area of Tukuyu where he arrived in 1910.

• 

  German Colonial Manual Supplement 1903

• 

  Indian Traders Pangani 1903

• 

  German Colonial Handbook 1908

• 

  German Colonial Handbook, page 1 1908

• 

  Indian Traders Pangani 1908

• 

  Pangani Harbour 1908