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bigadler:
All the names you mentioned were passed on from slave masters to their slaves and from colonialists to their subjects, these aren't Lagos names.

There are Lagos (Yoruba) names in all areas of Lagos, those are the authentic Lagos names, not these foreign ones. Go and research the history of these names, it's nothing to be proud of...

2mch:
Your family built nothing in Lagos I can assure you. Those names up there are responsible for most of the building in Lagos and setting up Lagos for what it is today. Your family were largely isolated and living in remote villages. Even your father cannot make the claims you are making here. Who do you think you are chatting with? Go and ask your father, Lagos Island families made all the moves for Lagos and were the richest and most educated Nigerians. So where does your family come in? Only 4-5 real royal families in Lagos. Oba of Lagos, Benin and Lagos Island Awori ancestory. Onikoyi of Ikoyi, Oyo Ancestry. Elepe of Epe, Epe Ancestry. Ayangburen of Ikorodu, Ikorodu ancestry. If your family does not belong to any of these then you don’t come from a real Lagos royal family but from a political chief subject to one of these families.

2mch:
He’s confused. Fashola is originally Ekiti. He’s just saying rubbish. It’s obvious the guy is not Lagosian and has no knowledge of the history of Lagos. Royalty indeed. One village chiefs son.

2mch:
Lmao. Elias family does not come from Ethiopia. That guy was whining you because he knows you are ignorant. Elias family are probably from Onikoyi branch and adopted an English name. That is why he claims he is from a traditional Yoruba aristocratic family. Check out his history, Taslim Olawale Elias? If you want to catch a true Lagosian, they have Muslim names too with that English name.

Taslim does not claim to come from Ethiopia . Lagos history is very funny and complicated but we are mostly descended or associate with those Oba’s. Oba of Lagos is the real Awori crown with the real Awori aristocracy. They just intermarried with Benin royalty. Those Lagos Island families are their subjects. Most to be posh adopted English names.

FreeStuffsNG:
https://leadership.ng/lagos-family-takes-possession-of-land-with-300-houses-in-apapa/

themanderon:
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Probably those that sold the land in the first place never had the right to do so. Even with the government backed documents they still have to vacate because the court has nullified any transaction that ever occurred because those that sold initially never had a right to sell.

FreeStuffsNG:
Smh.

No single true legitimate adult child from these families will come out to contest for an elective post and will answer a Chinedu on his posters , will speak Igbo fluently and can't make a single correct sentence in Yoruba then go online to consistently insult the Yoruba and acting against our Yoruba culture, insult Yoruba elders and leaders.

Anyone who claims to be a member of these illustrious families who behave like that is not one of us so you guys can have him or her

sukkot:
Also another reason why many of these ex slaves gravitated to Lagos Nigeria is that at the height of the abolitionist movement several extremely rich white philantropists, the billionaires of their time, all got together to form the AFRICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY to deal with the slave problem by repatriating former slaves back to Africa. Then they paid an ex slave called MARTIN DELANEY to go explore Africa for a suitable place to repatriate the ex slaves to. And Martin Delaney explored Africa and found his way to Lagos Nigeria and went back to report to the white billionaires and then they built a huge ship and gave the slaves who wanted to return lots of money and shipped them to Lagos

XAUBulls

2mch:
Guy, they did not gravitate towards anything. They simply came back home. You are arguing points you know nothing about. You don’t know the history of Lagos like I do. I am from one of these families and we do not discriminate against these people and call them slaves. They made Lagos what it is today! These families occupied Lagos Island and were mostly taken from there or travelled from there. Lagosians, especially Lagos Islanders are far ahead of other Nigerians in every way when it came to education and trade. They had been doing international trade and education long before other Nigerians who were telling tales in villages and clapping hands every night .

The Ijebu’s were still in their fishing villages and Eguns as well. The village Awori’s were farmers. These names are Yoruba exposed to westerners and most are Awori descendants who occupied Lagos Island. The ones with English names have Yoruba family names. Those ones did not go anywhere to slave! They just adopted those names via religion or trade due to their interaction with Oyinbo. The ones with Spanish sounding names are returnees!

They returnees are not all slaves either. They are also well respected members of Lagos because they brought with them a lot of knowledge and building in Lagos. So stop trying to diminish them and their contributions. Their wealth was made in Lagos through industry and being pioneers in introducing things to Nigeria which the West were already doing. No slave master gave any money to any free slave! African American are still fighting for their 40 acre and a mule.

FreeStuffsNG:
https://leadership.ng/lagos-family-takes-possession-of-land-with-300-houses-in-apapa/

FreeStuffsNG:
Lagos is not for sale and has never been for sale. If you know you know Just note those Lagos family names again.

Shout out to these Yoruba families;
Vaughan
Willoughby
Petgrave
Phillips
Thomas
Beecroft
Verissimo,
Shaw,
Da-Silva,
Pratt,
Payne,
Pedro,
Bickersteth,
Cole,
Carrena,
Damazio,
Audiffren,
Gomez,
Jones,
Rhodes,
Darocha,
Williams,
Sawyerr,
Pearse,
Ransome-Kuti,
Plumptre,
Bucknor,
Santos,
Savage,
Turton,
Dallas,
Johnson,
Moore,
Macaulay,
Egerton,
Boyle,
Domingo,
Randle,
Carr,
Davies,
George,
Blaise,
Davies,
Shacleford,
Taylor,
Combe,
Candide,
Vera-Cruz,
Anthony,
Fernandez,
Lawanson,
Clegg,
Damazio,
Lucas,
Lewis,
Martins,
Campbell,
Smith,
Coker,
Braithwaite,
Wellington,
Vivour,
Silva,
Soares
Antonio
Brown,
Salvador,
Holloway,
Peters,
Macgregor,
Grillo,
Campos,
Trezises,
Pereira,
Pineirho,
Martinez,
Marinho,
Dacosta,
Piero,
Ribeiro,
Randle,
De Souza,
Moreira,
Cardoso,
Delano,
Ferreira,
Cruz,
Ganzallo,
Branco,
Agusto,
Shitta-Bey,
Allen,
Coates,
Evans,
Forsythe,
Griffin,
Griffith,
Joseph,
Berkley,
MacCarthy,
Fischer,
Ricketts,
Roberts,
Simpson,
Reis,
Shyllon,
Doherty,
Serrano,
Joaquim,
Pacheco,
Wright,
Allan,
Caulcrick,
Towry
Check my signature for free stuffs!

FreeStuffsNG:
Lagos is not for sale and has never been for sale. If you know you know Just note those Lagos family names again.

Shout out to these Yoruba families;
Vaughan
Willoughby
Petgrave
Phillips
Thomas
Beecroft
Verissimo,
Shaw,
Da-Silva,
Pratt,
Payne,
Pedro,
Bickersteth,
Cole,
Carrena,
Damazio,
Audiffren,
Gomez,
Jones,
Rhodes,
Darocha,
Williams,
Sawyerr,
Pearse,
Ransome-Kuti,
Plumptre,
Bucknor,
Santos,
Savage,
Turton,
Dallas,
Johnson,
Moore,
Macaulay,
Egerton,
Boyle,
Domingo,
Randle,
Carr,
Davies,
George,
Blaise,
Davies,
Shacleford,
Taylor,
Combe,
Candide,
Vera-Cruz,
Anthony,
Fernandez,
Lawanson,
Clegg,
Damazio,
Lucas,
Lewis,
Martins,
Campbell,
Smith,
Coker,
Braithwaite,
Wellington,
Vivour,
Silva,
Soares
Antonio
Brown,
Salvador,
Holloway,
Peters,
Macgregor,
Grillo,
Campos,
Trezises,
Pereira,
Pineirho,
Martinez,
Marinho,
Dacosta,
Piero,
Ribeiro,
Randle,
De Souza,
Moreira,
Cardoso,
Delano,
Ferreira,
Cruz,
Ganzallo,
Branco,
Agusto,
Shitta-Bey,
Allen,
Coates,
Evans,
Forsythe,
Griffin,
Griffith,
Joseph,
Berkley,
MacCarthy,
Fischer,
Ricketts,
Roberts,
Simpson,
Reis,
Shyllon,
Doherty,
Serrano,
Joaquim,
Pacheco,
Wright,
Allan,
Caulcrick,
Towry
Check my signature for free stuffs!

XAUBulls:
Sukkot is correct in his post that you quoted.



You are also partly correct in your post. Let me emphasize here that
I also have Lagos Island maternal roots and Candido da Rocha of Lagos Island, who was an 1800s Bahia, Brazil returnee of Ijesa descent and the first Pound Sterling millionaire in Nigeria maintained 2 family branches on both sides of the
Atlantic... In Bahia and Lagos Island.

XAUBulls:
Hello
Sukkot,

Thanks for the mention. You are actually correct here.

The 2 Vaughan brothers whose father was an enslaved Egba Prince, returned to Abeokuta then Ebute Meta in Lagos in the 1800s from South Carolina in the U.S. via Liberia on the wishes of their dying father, just like I also stated in the convo we had early this year via my other moniker.

I wonder why some folks here don't humble themselves to read instead of arguing blindly with you on historical facts.

FreeStuffsNG:
Lagos is not for sale and has never been for sale. If you know you know Just note those Lagos family names again.

Shout out to these Yoruba families;
Vaughan
Willoughby
Petgrave
Phillips
Thomas
Beecroft
Verissimo,
Shaw,
Da-Silva,
Pratt,
Payne,
Pedro,
Bickersteth,
Cole,
Carrena,
Damazio,
Audiffren,
Gomez,
Jones,
Rhodes but we thought you guys said Rhodes is Igbo nah
Darocha,
Williams,
Sawyerr,
Pearse,
Ransome-Kuti,
Plumptre,
Bucknor,
Santos,
Savage,
Turton,
Dallas,
Johnson,
Moore,
Macaulay,
Egerton,
Boyle,
Domingo,
Randle,
Carr,
Davies,
George,
Blaise,
Davies,
Shacleford,
Taylor,
Combe,
Candide,
Vera-Cruz,
Anthony,
Fernandez,
Lawanson,
Clegg,
Damazio,
Lucas,
Lewis,
Martins,
Campbell,
Smith,
Coker,
Braithwaite,
Wellington,
Vivour, so Vivour is yoruba family now!?
Silva,
Soares
Antonio
Brown,
Salvador,
Holloway,
Peters,
Macgregor,
Grillo,
Campos,
Trezises,
Pereira,
Pineirho,
Martinez,
Marinho,
Dacosta,
Piero,
Ribeiro,
Randle,
De Souza,
Moreira,
Cardoso,
Delano,
Ferreira,
Cruz,
Ganzallo,
Branco,
Agusto,
Shitta-Bey,
Allen,
Coates,
Evans,
Forsythe,
Griffin,
Griffith,
Joseph,
Berkley,
MacCarthy,
Fischer,
Ricketts,
Roberts,
Simpson,
Reis,
Shyllon,
Doherty,
Serrano,
Joaquim,
Pacheco,
Wright,
Allan,
Caulcrick,
Towry,
Harrison,
Doregos,
St Mathew Daniels
Check my signature for free stuffs!

you didn't mention Bourdillon... tell ya jagaban to get ready to pack out of and vacate Bourdillon

NewDea4:
All those families you mentioned are not even of root Lagos descent but rather returnee stock. Aworis don't bear English/Brazilian names.

Get sense dude

ifeco4:
I'm sure you can never afford a plot of land even in your Ogbomosho village.

KIDfurniture:
Who is this one ? Ur father and mother is still living as tenants somewhere in the trenches .
Frustrated animal.

sukkot:
Hmmmm brother I knew you was going to come through with that your superior historical wisdom. Ok so da Rocha was the first pound sterling millionaire in Nigeria ? Wow. Are his descendants still around today ? That name seems to have died out. Oh and he maintained the 2 family branches in Bahia and Lagos island ?

That’s amazing information proving these guys are just immigrants who had more money and bought up Lagos land. Would you agree with this or like OP do you think this their claim to Lagos island heritage is genuine ? , oh ok I see you XAUBulls, so maternally you are Lagos island ? That’s interesting, so you have a stake in the land bro, you supposed return to naija and you island heritage guys have to take control of Lagos politics. Right now it is being controlled by outsiders. A gentleman such as yourself can contribute alot

sukkot:
oh ok my Chief so it’s an established fact that the kidnapped patriarch was an Egba prince ? Now that’s powerful information. So this was just a one generation enslaved offspring who knew the place they were from which is Egba and not Lagos island. Ok so the logistics was Liberia then Abeokuta then ebutte meta from South Carolina. It’s a powerful story. One of the Vaughan family today is the famous designer who I believe had his outfit in ebutte Meta. DAKOVA . David kolawole Vaughn . Good information as usual brother. Salute to you on the wisdom. See when you encounter superior wisdom you have to capitulate. You can’t argue against facts. It is what it is.

XAUBulls:
Absolutely Sukkot!

The iconic DAKOVA.

All the Vaughans are related and of
Egba descent from Abeokuta.

Sadly, the Yoruba Vaughan
patriarch, Scipio Vaughan who was taken on a slave ship before 1810 to South Carolina couldn't make it back to Yorubaland, but his 2 sons were born by a Native American woman, and both men, who had never set foot on African soil made it back to Yorubaland in the late 1800s on their father's behalf. They became weathy men and were part of those expelled from Abeokuta to Ebute Meta in Lagos by the Egba chiefs on the suspicion that Egba Christians and others were working with the British to undermine the Egba desire to forcibly gain access to the lucrative Ijebu trading route to the sea.

As far back as the late 1960s, the iconic American publication Ebony Magazine had featured the illuminating 200 years story of the
Vaughan family descendants on both sides of the Atlantic in Nigeria and the U.S. A direct female descendant of this Egba-Yoruba man, who was the first African-American woman to earn a JD in Law served at senior level in the President Richard Nixon government back in the early 1970s!

XAUBulls:
Smackdown list of Yoruba family names from the 1800s!

You forgot the St. Mathew Daniels family of Bamgbose area of Lagos Island and their millionaire patriach who owned a lot of Lagos land and real estate. The vast Ojo Barracks in
Lagos is built on original St. Mathew Daniels family land acquired in the 1970s.

Respect to all the ancestors of royal family bloodlines and more from
Ijesa, Egba, Oyo, Ekiti, Ijebu,
Yewa, Ketou, Anago, etc, who against all odds came back in the 1800s from slavery in Brazil, Cuba, Trinidad, U.S.A via Liberia, Sierra Leone, etc, to become before 1900, hugely successful professionals, millionaire traders, and international business people or African Merchant Princes like they are called in the history books.

sukkot:
splendid information Sir. splendid!!!!

XAUBulls:
How's it going Sukkot?

Nice feedback from you here!

The female founder of the hugely popular ADRAO International School on Victoria Island, Lagos is a descendant of Candido da Rocha. Da Rocha is embeded in the ADRAO acronym.

There is a full website that is dedicated to documenting the lives of Yoruba returnee families from
Bahia in Brazil and Havana in Cuba and the family branches they left behind when they returned to
Yorubaland as freemen and women from the 1840s.

The Bahia-born, Ijesa mogul, Candido da Rocha built an exact replica of his iconic late 1800s Brazilian mansion named Water House on Kakawa St., Lagos Island, in Bahia as well... Both mansions still standing. I'll give you the website link later.


Indeed! You are right. Many of them were Egba, Owu, Ijebu, Oyo, Ijebu, etc, returnees to mainly
Lagos Island and Abeokuta, who had been taken as prisoners of war and taken out on slave ships to the
Americas. Some folks like the first
African Anglican bishop, Ajayi
Crowther (an Oyo man and the maternal grandfather of the nationalist and UK-educated land surveyor Herbert Macaulay) were rescued from the Portuguese slave ship named "Esperanza," heading for Brazil from the Lagos Island slave port in the early 1800s. The "Esperanza" was captured by British Navy Squadrons and taken to Freetown in Sierra Leone.

Some of the freed Yorubas later got educated, bought and fixed the impounded slave ships and become very wealthy men who were into international trade along the West Coast of Africa and shipped commodities to
Europe and Brazil.

They maintained magnificent houses in Freetown and Lagos Island, and could afford to go on holidays to England and sent their kids to Oxford and Cambridge
Universities all before and after 1900!

It was part of this group of wealthy Yoruba returnees from Brazil, Cuba, U.S.A, Sierra Leone of the late 1800s who were more Europeanised, that bought up those huge Lagos and Ogun lands on lease from the original indigenes. Later on through
Nigerian naturalization laws of
1960, they and their descendants
too became Lagos Island indigenes though Awori-Yorubas are the REAL indigenes of Lagos Island. Brazilian Quarters where the music star and Grammy winner, SEAL comes from,
Yoruba returnees from Cuba settled in the axis of Popo Aguda/Campos Square, Yoruba Saro (Sierra Leone) returnees settled in Olowogbowo area of Lagos Island, etc.

XAUBulls:
How's it going Sukkot?

Nice feedback from you here!

The female founder of the hugely popular ADRAO International School on Victoria Island, Lagos is a descendant of Candido da Rocha. Da Rocha is embeded in the ADRAO acronym.

There is a full website that is dedicated to documenting the lives of Yoruba returnee families from
Bahia in Brazil and Havana in Cuba and the family branches they left behind when they returned to
Yorubaland as freemen and women from the 1840s.

The Bahia-born, Ijesa mogul, Candido da Rocha built an exact replica of his iconic late 1800s Brazilian mansion named Water House on Kakawa St., Lagos Island, in Bahia as well... Both mansions still standing. I'll give you the website link later.


Indeed! You are right. Many of them were Egba, Owu, Ijebu, Oyo, Ijebu, etc, returnees to mainly
Lagos Island and Abeokuta, who had been taken as prisoners of war and taken out on slave ships to the
Americas. Some folks like the first
African Anglican bishop, Ajayi
Crowther (an Oyo man and the maternal grandfather of the nationalist and UK-educated land surveyor Herbert Macaulay) were rescued from the Portuguese slave ship named "Esperanza," heading for Brazil from the Lagos Island slave port in the early 1800s. The "Esperanza" was captured by British Navy Squadrons and taken to Freetown in Sierra Leone.

Some of the freed Yorubas later got educated, bought and fixed the impounded slave ships and become very wealthy men who were into international trade along the West Coast of Africa and shipped commodities to
Europe and Brazil.

They maintained magnificent houses in Freetown and Lagos Island, and could afford to go on holidays to England and sent their kids to Oxford and Cambridge
Universities all before and after 1900!

It was part of this group of wealthy Yoruba returnees from Brazil, Cuba, U.S.A, Sierra Leone of the late 1800s who were more Europeanised, that bought up those huge Lagos and Ogun lands on lease from the original indigenes. Later on through
Nigerian naturalization laws of
1960, they and their descendants
too became Lagos Island indigenes though Awori-Yorubas are the REAL indigenes of Lagos Island. Brazilian Quarters is where the music star and Grammy winner, SEAL comes from, Yoruba returnees from Cuba settled in the axis of Popo Aguda/Campos Square, Yoruba Saro (Sierra Leone) returnees settled in Olowogbowo area of Lagos Island, etc.

sukkot:
this is very powerful information brother. 2mch you need to come see this real proper impeccable research from the resident stellar historian XAUBulls

on a side note though brother, the bolded ? , i never understand how you are barely 50 years removed from slavery, which england was a huge slaver nation, and you are going on vacations and sending your children to school in england. i guess that stockholm syndrome was strong with these guys lol. stockholm syndrome and a dash of colonial mentality

XAUBulls:
On the surface it looks like it... Lol.

But then, that 50 years period fell within the Victorian Era of Queen Victoria, the industrial revolution and age of enlightenment had started in England as can be seen from the abolitionist movements.

So, naturally the successful
Yoruba, Fante, Congo and other ethnicities who were rescued (or their parents were rescued) from slave ships by the British Navy Squadrons as the infamous slave ships headed for the Americas were at least grateful to the British for that and they also got educated by the missionaries at Fourah Bay College and other institutions as craftsmen in Freetown in the 1800s.

A Yoruba girl of royal descent by the name of Aina originally from a town (Oja Odan) near Abeokuta was adopted by Queen Victoria in the 1850s in England after she was rescued by an English man, Captain
Scott-Bonnet from Whydah in Dahomey. Aina had been captured in a Dahomey dry season raid and her parents were killed.

Aina had regular access to Queen Victoria at the Palace while she had her education in England and when she grew older, Queen Victoria threw a well publicised Royal wedding in the late 1800s in England for Aina (her adopted daughter) and her Lagos Island-based wealthy businessman Yoruba Saro husband.

Aina unfortunately passed on from an illness in Madiera, Portugal while on holidays with her spouse in the late 1800s. She had kids and the direct descendants are still alive as of today. Documentaries have been made on Aina Bonnet and her relationship with Queen Victoria.

sukkot:
wow ok mind blown. All these information has spurred me onto further research. And so it appears that during that Victorian era there was very close relationship between the British aristocrats and the Nigerian community and there was huge movement back and forth between both countries and it was a very liberal period. It great to hear that queen victoria and the Victorian era had such close knit relationships with us. So here is what I found out. Aina was rescued from the palace of king ghezo of Dahomey. The guy she eventually married, she was the guys second wife, his first wife had died. The guy is a Yoruba guy from saro who went to CMS grammar school in Sierra Leone .

He later joined the Royal Navy and was involved in the battle that bombed the palace of Obs Kosoko to bring in oba akitoye. I guess this was a slave abolition mission. He got injured and retired as captain labulo Davies. He was introduced to cocoa by some Portuguese traders and he was the first to plant cocoa in Lagos and he became so rich. His very good friend was the bishop Ajayi crowther and Herbert macaulays father, and so it seems all the influential people back then were very close friends. He finally settled in Lagos island and was the main sponsor to create CMS grammar school, a replica of the CMS grammar school he went to in Sierra Leone. The person who founded CMS Grammar school was his good friend , Herbert macaulays father, while he was the main sponsor.

So these 3 great forefathers of ours were tight close knit friends. His wife Aina died at like age 37 and he married a third wife called kofoworola. All three great men, the bishop ajayi crowther, captain Davies labulo and Herbert Macaulay senior were buried at the ajele cemetery Lagos island which was razed to the ground in 1970 by the then governor of Lagos brigadier mobolaji johnson to build a secretariat on it. Wow bro our history is rich and vast

XAUBulls:
An awesome feedback Sukkot!

Thanks for doing your quick and concise research here on the moving story of Aina and Captain Labulo Davies. I read years ago that cocoa first came to Yorubaland from Fernando Po.

Aha! Now I get it. The British Navy HMS Bloodhound that bombarded
Oba Kosoko was stationed at Fernando Po, a then Portuguese territory in the Gulf of Guinea. This instantly explains how Captain Labulo Davies got to know of cocoa and introduced cocoa to Lagos Island and the rest of Yorubaland!

Lagos Island and Whydah were the 2 most notorious slave ports through which Yorubas, Nupes (Tapa) and more were deported on slave ships to the Americas and the British Royal Navy had to bomb Oba Kosoko's strong canon fortifications to stop the illegal slave trade. Kosoko and his close aides then fled to Epe. This is the reason why we have Eko Epe and Ijebu Epe, even though Epe is originally an Ijebu town.

I'm on the same page with you. Indeed, our history is vast and
I'm proud of the pioneering roles of these returnee Yoruba men and women of the 1800s. Their exploits in modern international business, medicine, law, and more must never be forgotten as long as we exist in the physical world.

sukkot:
it’s all amazing stuff. Also the first daughter of Captain Davies and Aina called Victoria after queen Victoria her godmother was married to Doctor J K Randle. It’s like these Lagos aristocrats all moved in the same circles. Their third daughter ( of captain and aina ) had a child with Herbert Macaulay.

These people are just marrying and sleeping with each other lol snobs . Keeping the bloodline pure. Which is funny because this aristocracy started from captured and rescued slaves. Just an encounter with queen Victoria and a lineage of Lagos aristocrats is born lol.

XAUBulls:
Indeed Sukkot. They were a closely knit group of folks within the pre-1900 and post-1900 urban Yoruba society.


Check these Websites below out:

1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Pinson_Labulo_Davies#:~:text=Reffle%20in%201889.-,Cocoa%20farming%20pioneer%20in%20West%20Africa,farm%20in%20Ijon%2C%20Western%20Lagos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Forbes_Bonetta

2]
https://www.picuki.com/media/2219116900644942010
Abimbola da Rocha Afodu Omololu-Mulele(1927- 2009) Lawyer & Educationist Born in Lagos, she was the grand-daughter of the wealthy merchant and philanthropist Candido da Rocha. In 1963 she founded ADRAO International School- one of the earliest and most reputable private schools in Nigeria.

3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candido_Da_Rocha
https://newswirengr.com/2022/07/21/meet-nigerias-millionaire-candido-da-rocha-who-sent-his-dirty-clothes-to-britain-for-laundry/

4]
https://femioyebode.com/2014/03/07/brazilians-in-lagos/

https://femioyebode.com/2021/04/30/victorian-lagos/
https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Victorian-Lagos-Echeruo-Michael-J.C-Macmillan/14120453186/bd

4]
[THE YORUBAS IN BRAZIL][26PAGES PDF BOOK FREE DOWNLOAD]

https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/32360/anacostia%20alcione%20amos%20SRO%20chapter%20july%202017%20yoruba%20in%20brazil.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y


Enjoy the rest of your day!

2mch:
Ransome-Kuti and a few others are from Abeokuta and not Lagos. The Brazilian sounding names are returnees. The English names are Yoruba Lagosian with Awori roots with old family links to Lagos Island, but they embraced Christianity or Oyinbo names. They all have their own Yoruba family names. Oyinbo used to give names by profession too. So some of those English name allude to profession of ancestors when English people landed in Lagos.