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Name: BOSHOFF, Jacobus Nicholas 'Jack'

Birth Date: 18.4.1905 Middelburg, Transvaal

First Date: 1909

Profession: Farmed 'Kyalami' near Plateau Station, EAP. Together with his wife they built up a flourishing concern.

Area: Plateau, 1930 Anabkoi

Married: Agatha (née Cloete) arrived in EA 1911

Book Reference: Gillett, Eldoret, Hut, Red 31, Gazette, Red Book 1912

General Information:

Eldoret - Mrs Bonnie Boshoff, née Cloete, started a school at Concordia where old Mrs Cloete lived. The children arrived at school on mule, donkey or in ox carts. Mrs Boshoff is still in the district. [1967]
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Uasin Gishu Plateau - J.N. Boshoff, Eldoret Kenya Regiment 1071 & 1006
Red Book 1912 - J.N. Boshoff - Uasin Gishu
Gazette 6/3/1918 - Probate and Administration in respect of the estate of Jacobus Niklaas Boshoff, late of Farm No 906/2 who died at Uasin Gishu on 15/12/1917. Applied for by Cathelina Fredrika Boshoff of Uasin Gishu.
Hut has Jack N. Boshoff, 1930, Ainabkoi
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Uasin Gishu Voters Roll 2 of the same name, one a farmer and the other Artisan KUR&H Eldoret. The railway one (Kenya Regiment 1006) was born 18.4.1905 at Middelburg, Transvaal and was married to E.C. Boshoff. His address was Plateau Station. The other one (KR 1071) has no birthdate in KR records. He is at Box 56 Eldoret.

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