Lambert (Lamherd), Adam * ?, ? † 1839. Brother of Amraal Lambert. Their forefathers belonged to the leaders of population groups who lived at the Table Bay. His grandfather moved away from the Table Bay into the interior, where his father got an appointment as a wagon driver for a Boer in the vicinity of Clanwilliam. After the death of his father, the family moved with their cattle over the Oranje River up to the Nossob River. Here Amraal filled an important position amongst his people. In 1835 the family moved to Naosanabis - named Wesleyvale by WMMS missionary Joseph Tindall - because of the drought. Adam Lambert committed himself to the Christian course during an encounter with LMS missionary Schmelen. In October 1838 Adam Lambert moved to Blydeverwacht where he WMMS missionary Edward Cook motivates him again for a close cooperation with the mission. Lambert settles in Warmbad (Nisbett-Bath) an quickly became one of Cook's most important co-worker, who accompanied him on all visits amongst the Nama settlements. Adam Lambert is a close friend of Piet Vlermuis. Both of them move back to the North in January 1839. Here they get involved in mission work under their own initiative - starting e.g. two Methodist classes. In July he travels to Warmbad (Nisbett Bath) to accompany Cook on one of his visits to the Cape. Here he died during a dysentery epidemic.1 Like his brother the famous Amraal Lambert he also fulfilled missionary functions. "Missionary functions were also performed independently by Piet Vlermuis and Adam Lambert, who often visited Cook at Warmbad and accompanied him on his journeys to the Afrikaner community. These two had been members of the mission elite since the first missionaries had come to the southern Namibia in 1806; Adam Lambert was depicted by Cook as a highly spiritual person occasionally prone to weeping fits. [...] After Lambert and Vlermuis had come to Warmbad for the first time in 1838, they began to preach and teach at Naosanabis, the new residence of the Khauas people, where they organized school classes for people form 'seven different tribes, four of which are black'"2 "In 1839 the missionary [Cook] travelled to Cape Town with some Nama and Oorlams. Among them were Captain Amraal Lambert, his brother Adam and Peter Links, Cook´s former 'mechanics and interpreter', who had left the station two years earlier, discontented with his status as a mere 'native assistant'. Cook sold ivory skins etc. of £ 60 worth on behalf of his people. Adam Lambert and Peter Links, however, died during a dysentery epidemic raging in Cape Town."3 Married: Children: Education: Other family members connected to RMS: Mission Stations: History with the RMS: 1 Cook 1839101. 2 Dedering 1997:150. 3 Dedering 1997:150. --------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------- ------------------------------------------------------------