Bonetta, Sarah Forbes, 1843?-1880

found: African American Studies Center, accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Bonetta, Sarah Forbes; Ina Sarah Forbes Bonetta; celebrity, pianist, linguist, slave; born 1843 in or near the southern Beninese town of Okeadon; became a pawn in negotiations between the Dahomean king with the British crown; Queen Victoria agreed to look after her well-being (1850); stayed with the Forbes family (1850-1851); went to Freetown in the British colony of Sierra Leone to attend the Church Missionary Society (CMS) girls' mission school (until 1853); Queen Victoria paid for her care until she became an adult; continued her education in Brighton (sometime in either the late 1850s or early 1860s); relocated to Lagos; joined the Western-educated elite of the city; taught Sunday school and served as an administrator at a school; her musical talents impressed many people; a photograph of her is on display at the National Portrait Gallery in London; died 15 August 1880 in Portugal)

found: Her name was Aina, 2018:pages 214-225 (Sarah Forbes Bonetta; married James Davies, had three children; died of consumption in Funchal, Madeira; buried in the English Cemetery there)

found: Wikipedia, April 29, 2019(Sara Forbes Bonetta, otherwise spelled Sarah; 1843 - 15 August 1880; originally Omoba [royal title] Aina; born in 1843 at Oke-Odan, an Egbado village, Ogun State; a West African princess of the Yoruba people, orphaned in Dahomeyan raid in 1848, sold into slavery at age five, intended as a human sacrifice, rescued by Captain Frederick E. Forbes of the Royal Navy, who renamed her Sara Forbes Bonetta, "Bonetta" after his ship HMS Bonetta; Queen Victoria, who called her Sally, raised her as her goddaughter in the British middle class; due to a chronic cough she was sent to school in Africa from age 8 to 12, returned to England in 1855; given permission by the Queen to marry Captain James Pinson Labulo Davies, a Yoruba businessman, in 1862; her daughter Victoria Matilda Davies was also a goddaughter of Queen Victoria, who married Lagos doctor John K. Randle; many of her and her daughter's descendants now live in either England or Sierra Leone, while the Randle family of Lagos remains prominent in Nigeria; Sara Forbes Bonetta died of tuberculosis in Funchal; her husband erected an obelisk in her memory at Ijon, western Lagos, where he had a cocoa farm; inscription: "In memory of Princess Sarah Forbes Bonetta, wife of the Hon. J. P. L. Davies who departed this life at Madeira August 15th 1880 aged 37 years")