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Name: BESSLER, Albert Ludwig
Birth Date: 4 Feb 1870 Sersheim, Wurttemburg
Death Date: 12 June 1925 Nakuru
First Date: 1909
Last Date: 1925
Profession: Government Surveyor at Nairobi. 1912 Junior Staff Surveyor
Area: Nairobi
Married: Emma Louise Muller b. 1876 Germany, d. 8 Aug 1958 Nairobi) (she later m. Robert Henry Cave)
Children: Alfred (1902 Stuttgart-1949 Nairobi); Eric (1900 Wurttemburg-12 Apr 1925 Nairobi); Francis Augustus (22 Oct 1911 Kenya-20 Nov 1951 Nairobi)
Book Reference: Gillett, SE, HBEA, KAD, Red 31, Letter, Red 22, Gazette, Barnes, Colonial, Red Book 1912, Red 19
General Information:
SE - A. Bessler - Survey Dept - June 1910
Letter from A. Rehm to G. Bunting dated 22nd January 1909 from Nairobi mentions 'Bessler & Boileau are made Junior Staff Surveyors, but Bessler is still in the Drawing Office. …..'
Gazette - 24/6/14 - appt. Senior Staff Surveyor
Nairobi St Austin's cemetery - died 12 Jun 1925 aged 55
Colonial 1912 - Cadastral Survey - Junior Staff Surveyor - A.B. Bessler
Red Book 1912 - A. Bessler - Nairobi
Red Book 1912 - Survey Dept. - Junior Staff Surveyor
Red Book 1919 - A. Bessler - Survey Department, Nairobi
Red Book 1919 - Survey Dept. - Cadastral Branch - Senior Staff Surveyor
KAD 1922 Senior Staff Surveyor, Cadastral Branch, Survey Dept.
Gazette - 22/7/1925 - Probate and Administration - Albert Bessler late of Nairobi who died at Nakuru on 13 June 1925. Applied for by Emma Bessler of Nairobi
Ancestry naturalised British in Kenya on 23 Feb 1912