 He came to Namibia as a child in 1864, spent ten years in Cape Town and returned on 16 June 1874 to Walvis Bay as assistant at Harrison's store.He traded and hunted in Ovamboland in 1875, then went to Angola in 1881 and farmed at Humpata .He finally resettled in 1928 with other Angola Boers in the Gobabis district of Namibia, where he died in October 1932.