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Name: VISSER, Johannes Stefannus
Birth Date: 5 May 1885 Lydenburg, S. Africa
Death Date: 30 Nov 1957 Nairobi
First Date: 1919
Profession: Transport, farming
Area: Eldoret
Married: Maria Elizabeth
Book Reference: Hut, Medals, Red Book 1912
General Information:
Medals - Belfield's Scouts - Johannes S. Visser, EA Transport Corps, No. 1733, Private
Red Book 1912 - J.S. Visser - Naivasha
Gazette 25 Mar and 20 May 1958 probate
Willie Joubert He travelled from German East Africa (Ngare Nairob)i to Nairobi in 1910 where he married Elsie Josina Blignault (Ellie) but they returned after the wedding to German East Africa and joined the rest of the Visser family. In the 1930s they went to the Lupa goldfields where the older children got married and Jan died. The other family members then moved to Kenya.