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==Marriage and children== [[File:James Pinson Labulo Davies and Sara Forbes Bonetta.jpg|thumb|right|upright|A portrait of [[James Pinson Labulo Davies]] and Sarah Forbes Bonetta, photographed in London in 1862 by [[Camille Silvy]]]] She was later commanded by the Queen to marry Captain James Pinson Labulo Davies at [[St Nicholas' Church, Brighton|St Nicholas' Church]] in [[Brighton]], [[East Sussex]], in August 1862, after a period spent in the town preparing for the wedding. During her subsequent time in Brighton, she lived at 17 Clifton Hill in the [[Montpelier, Brighton|Montpelier]] area.<ref>{{cite book|last=Collis|first=Rose|year=2010|title=The New Encyclopaedia of Brighton: (based on the original by Tim Carder) |edition=1st|location=Brighton |publisher=Brighton & Hove Libraries|isbn=978-0-9564664-0-2}}</ref> Captain Davies was a [[Yoruba people|Yoruba]] businessman of considerable wealth, and after their wedding the couple moved back to their native Africa, where they had three children: [[Victoria Davies Randle|Victoria Davies]] (1863), Arthur Davies (1871), and Stella Davies (1873).<ref name="Harvp|Elebute|2013|pp=77-79">{{Harvp|Elebute|2013|pp=77-79}}</ref> Sarah Forbes Bonetta continued to enjoy such a close relationship with Queen Victoria that she and Bishop [[Samuel Ajayi Crowther]] were the only Lagos ''indigènes'' the Royal Navy had standing orders to evacuate in the event of an uprising in Lagos. Victoria Matilda Davies, Bonetta's first daughter, was named after Queen Victoria, who was also her godmother.<ref name=Blackpast /> She married the successful Lagos doctor [[Dr. John Randle]], becoming the stepmother of his son, Nigerian businessman and socialite [[J. K. Randle]].<ref>{{Cite journal | title = Some early Nigerian doctors and their contribution to modern medicine in West Africa | last = Adeloye | first = Adelola | author-link = Adelola Adeloye | journal = Medical History | year = 1974 | volume = 18 | issue = 3 | pages = 275–93 | url = http://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC1081580&blobtype=pdf | access-date = 23 May 2015 | doi = 10.1017/s0025727300019621 | pmc = 1081580 | pmid = 4618303 | archive-date = 21 June 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190621092240/http://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi%3Faccid%3DPMC1081580%26blobtype%3Dpdf | url-status = live }}</ref> Bonetta's second daughter Stella Davies and [[Herbert Macaulay]], the grandson of Samuel Ajayi Crowther, had a daughter together: Sarah Abigail Idowu Macaulay Adadevoh, named after her maternal grandmother Sarah and her paternal grandmother Abigail.<ref name="Harvp|Elebute|2013|pp=77-79"/> A descendant of Sarah's through her line was the Ebola heroine [[Ameyo Adadevoh]]. Many of Sarah's other descendants now live in either the [[United Kingdom]] or [[Sierra Leone]]; a separate branch, the Randle family of Lagos, remains prominent in contemporary [[Nigeria]].<ref name=Blackpast>{{Cite web | title = Bonetta, Sarah Forbes (1843–1880) | website = BlackPast | first = Ayodale | last = Braimah | date = 5 June 2014 | url = http://www.blackpast.org/aah/bonetta-sarah-forbes-1843-1880 | access-date = 14 August 2014 | archive-date = 19 August 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140819090204/http://www.blackpast.org/aah/bonetta-sarah-forbes-1843-1880 | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | title = The Nineteenth Century: 1862 - Sarah Forbes Bonetta - The African Princess in Brighton | work = Brighton and Hove Black History | publisher = Brighton and Hove Black History Project | url = http://www.black-history.org.uk/bonetta.asp | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20030508111257/http://www.black-history.org.uk/bonetta.asp | archive-date = 8 May 2003 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | title = Sarah Forbes Bonetta (Sarah Davies) (1843-1880), Goddaughter of Queen Victoria:Image archive | url = http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp63230 | publisher = National Portrait Gallery | location = London | access-date = 30 September 2006 | archive-date = 30 September 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070930163750/http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp63230 | url-status = live }}</ref>
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