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Name: JOUBERT, Abraham Benjamin
Nee: son of Jozua Adriaan Petrus Joubert, bro of Jozua Adriaan Coenraad Joubert
Birth Date: 9 June 1861 Middelburg, Transvaal
Death Date: June 1959, buried at Verbrandebos, Kenya
First Date: 1903
Profession: Farm 40. Trekker from SA to GEA who moved to EAP
Area: Plateau, Eldoret
Married: 1. Elizabeth Lauretta Hamman; 2. Gertruda Johanna Helena du Plessis b. 1880 S. Africa, d. 5 June 1956
Children: 1. Martha Francina Fredrika; Anna Elizabeth; Jacoba Elizabeth; Pieter Theunis Christiaan du Plessis 2. Gertruida Johanna Helena (1905-1989); Jakoba Elizabetha (Storm) (7.5.1909 Eldoret-1994); Abraham Benjamin (1913-26 May 1958 Eldoret); Anna Elizabeth (17 May 1917 Eldoret-1988)
Book Reference: KFA, Eldoret, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Web, Pioneers, Habari 2009, Drumkey, Land, Red 22
General Information:
KFA - Originally went to the Arusha district but grew dissatisfied with a rule whose efficiency and stringency were uncongenial, and trekked northwards to try his luck in the British Protectorate. In 1903 he walked from Arusha to Nairobi in 5 days and back in 4. A penniless individual, he earned a meagre livelihood by making kongoni hide shoes for 2/- a pair. Lacking the price of a railway ticket, he walked to the Plateau where he settled, and was still alive at 96 years old - and, until the age of 90, making his own shoes.
Web - contacted by Jan Janse van Rensburg when he went to Kenya in 1906 on an exploratory trip prior to the 1908 trek.
Habari 2009 - At the end of 1906, the Arnoldis, John de Waal and the Cloetes, joined by the Viljoens and Fred Loxton from Bethel, trekked with all their possessions to Nakuru. From there, in the beginning of 1907, Frans Arnoldi and John de Waal, accompanied by Sonny Cloete's father, Abraham Joubert and Fred Loxton travelled by ox wagon up the western wall of the Rift Valley to the Plateau (a hazardous journey lasting 2 months) where they stayed with the Van Breda brothers. Afterwards they settled on the Plateau.
Eldoret - of Farm No. 1 was 97 when he died and was still making his own shoes at 90.
KAD 1922 has A. Joubert, Farm 40, Uasin Gishu.
Red 25 - A.B. Joubert, Farm 40, Eldoret.
Red 31 has A.B. Joubert, Eldoret,
Hut - A.B. Joubert 1919 Farm 1 Soy
Drumkey 1909 Directory of Residents - A.B. Goubert, Machakos
Land - 1908 - A.B. Joubert - Grazing, 2000 acres, Athi River, 22-5-06, Registered 30-5-08
Land 1909 - A.B. Joubert, M.J. Prinsloo, and J.A. Joubert - Grazing and agriculture, 1439 acres - Uasin Gishu - 31/3/08 - Leasehold under Occupation Licence for 5 to 99 years from 1/3/09 - Registered Feb. 1910
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Uasin Gishu Plateau - A.B. Joubert, Farm No. 1
Abraham Benjamin - KR 881
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Uasin Gishu Voters Roll Farm 140
Gazette 10 June 1958 probate for both husband and wife
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