- Parents
- Partners
- Children
- Fatehali Esmail Jaffer 1919–1992Fatma Esmail 1907–1939Fazal Esmail Jaffer Jiwani 1894–1966Gulamali Esmail Jivani 1912–1989Hassanali Esmail 1909–2003Issa Esmail 1905–1980Jaffer Esmail Jaffer 1923Jena Esmail 1914–2002
Among the prominent Indians of the (Khoja ed.) Ismaili community, I remember a number by names, and I shall enumerate some of them. Bandali Remtullah as Mukhi was their representative. Others were Alidina Visram, Ibrahim Lila, Kanji Hansraj, the heir of Jan Hansraj, Dhalla Bhimji, Daramsi Haschem, and Jaffer Dossa Thawer, Jaffer Remtullah, Pardan Mohamed, Abdullah Allarakia, Merali Remtullah, Jaffer Somji, Ali Siwji, Ismail Jiwani, Ali Somji, Ibrahim Hasim, Saleh Siwji, and many others. In 1899, there were 401 brick houses in the town of Bagamoyo, belonging almost entirely to members of the (Khoja ed.) Ismaili community. In addition, there were 2431 native houses with makuti roofs, built along streets which were already comparatively straight in those times. Besides, there were two large and magnificent houses which had been given as a present to the German administrative authorities by the Indian Sewa Hadji.
By Otto Mahnke, German Colonial Official (1899)- reprinted from Simerge.