The origin of the Cutchi Memon Jamat Andhra Pradesh, Secunderabad, can be traced back to almost the same period when our forefathers migrated from Cutch with a desire to improve their lives, expand their businesses, and settle down in various parts of the country. Those Cutchi Memons that came to the former princely state of Hyderabad preferred to settle down in Secunderabad, a cantonment area inhabited mainly by British civilians and army personnel and a place suitable for their business activities.
A glimpse at the Cutchi Memon History - Jusbani Family....
(Original Kutchi Memon - Series ONE)
ORIGINALLY OUR ANCESTORS ARE FROM SIND PAKISTAN…………………… AND FROM MY MOTHERS SIDE ANCESTOR WAS A SUFI WHO CAME ALONG WITH PHIR ABDUL KADAR GILANI SOME 800 YRS AGO FROM IRAQ/ BAGHDAD.. AND SETTLED DOWN IN SIND/ PAKISTAN.
AFTER SOME YEARS OUR FAMILY WHO WAS KNOWN AS JUSBANIS , MOVED FROM SIND TO RAN OF CUTCHI .. JUSBANIS WERE A BIG CLAN , WHO CLAIMED THAT THEY HAD A LINK TO THE FAMILY OF JUSAB( YUSUF/ JOSEPH A VERY HANDSOME PROPHET … SON OF YACUB ( JACOB)….
SINCE THE FAMILY WAS ALREADY MOMIN ( MUSLIM ) …AND SETTELED IN CUTCH, THE HINDU PEOPLE LIVING THERE COULD NOT SAY MOMIN AND STARTED SAYING MEMONS……. OUR ANCESSTORS HAD FARMS , AND BUSSNIESS IN DAY TO DAY GOODS AND TRAVELLED A LOT BACJK AND FORTH FROM MADRAS , CEYLON AND EVEN AFRICA …. LATER IN 1800.. MY GREAT, GREAT , GREAT GRANDFATHER JUSAP( YUSUF ) ASKED HIS SONS ( 8 ) TO GO BOMBAY AND START A COMMUNITY ALONG WITH OTHER MEMONS LIKE ADAMJI, WAKAKI, LAKHANI AND FEW OTHERS …
NOW BOMBAY BECAME THE BASE OF MOMINS( MEMONS TO EXPAND THE BUSSNIESS AND REAL ESTATE , THEY TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY IN 1800 AND EXPANDED INTO A LARGE JAMAT, WHICH LATER BECAME CUTCHI MEMON JAMMAT OF BOMBAY….. AND MY GRANDFATHERS FATHER SALEMOHMAD JUSBANI , BECOME THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE CUTCHI MEMOM JAMMAT……. HIS FIVE SONS STARTED A CARPET AND FLOORING BUSSNIESS IN BOMBAY AND CALLED IT VENJARA CARPETS AND WAS REGISTERED IN 1879 WITH MUNCIPALITY OF BRITISH BOMBAY ….. AND MY GRANDFATHER WHO WAS A LAD …. SETH ESSAK SALEMOHAMD , LEARNED THE TRADE VERY WELL AND TOOK THE LAST NAME OF VENJARA , BY NOW WHICH HAD BECOME VERY FAMOUS IN BOMBAY AND THE REST IS HISTORY AND THE NAME VENJARA STUCK WITH US TILL TODAY AND I DO LIKE IT , ITS UNIQUE
WELL AHMEDANI I HAVE A FAMILY HISTORY OF 6 GENERATION BEHIND ME … PLEASE TELL ME AS HOW HALAI MEMONS CAME ABOUT , I DO KNOW A BIT ABOUT YOUR CLAN , FROM HALAR IN KATHIWAR IN INDIA , CLOSE AHMEDABAD/ INDIA .
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