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Name: BESSELING, W.

First Date: 1909

Profession: Established the Central African Trading Company, in Mombasa in 1909.

Area: Mombasa

Book Reference: Gillett, HBEA, Playne, Leader14, Red Book 1912

General Information:

Red Book 1912 - W. Besseling - Mombasa
Playne - Came to BEA from Central Africa - Blantyre - where he was for three and a half years with Messrs. B. Besseling & Co. of Rotterdam
Is this Wilhelmus Josephus Besseling, bro of Josephus? Born 13 Aug 1884 The Hague, d. 23 May 1962 The Hague? He m. 9 Feb 1911 in Leiden Gabriella Carolina Felicitas Maria van Wensen (1889-1948) and had 2 dau - Gabriella Maria (1911-1977) and Alice Theodora (1919)

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