• Bathurst is a mountainous village in the Western Area Rural District of Sierra Leone. Bathurst seats at 541 feet above sea level, and lies approximately...
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    The Sierra Leone Creole people (Krio: Krio pipul) are an ethnic group of Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leone Creole people are descendants of freed African-American...
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  • township Banjul, The Gambia, a city known as Bathurst until 1973 Bathurst, Sierra Leone, a village Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa A market garden...
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  • The liberated Africans of Sierra Leone, also known as recaptives, were Africans who had been illegally enslaved onboard slave ships and rescued by anti-slavery...
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    Freetown Peninsula (formerly the Colony of Sierra Leone) is one of five principal divisions of Sierra Leone. It comprises the oldest city and national...
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  • Salako Benka-Coker (category Sierra Leone Creole people)
    established a private legal practice in Bathurst, Gambia before accepting an appointment in 1943 as Crown Counsel in Sierra Leone. Between 1953 and 1957, he was...
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    Davidson Nicol (category High commissioners of Sierra Leone to the United Kingdom)
    Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol on 14 September 1924 in Bathurst, Sierra Leone, to Jonathan Josibiah Nicol and Winifred Clarissa Regina Willoughby...
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    Sierra Leone – United States relations are bilateral relations between Sierra Leone and the United States. United States-Sierra Leone relations date back...
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  • Rivers State, Nigeria Methodist Girls' High School (Sierra Leone) Methodist Girls' High School, Bathurst (now Banjul), Gambia, now Gambia Senior Secondary...
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    James Pinson Labulo Davies (category Sierra Leone Creole people)
    Davies was born to James and Charlotte Davies in the village of Bathurst, Sierra Leone, then a British colony. His parents were Creoles of recaptive Yoruba...
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    British West Africa (category Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate)
    Africa as a colonial entity was originally officially known as Colony of Sierra Leone and its Dependencies, then British West African Territories and finally...
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    that formed part of Sierra Leone. In 1829, a Lieutenant Governor was appointed that was subordinate to the Governor of Sierra Leone. Between 1843 and 1866...
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  • William Farquhar Conton (category Conton family (Sierra Leone))
    2003) was a Sierra Leone Creole educator, historian and acclaimed novelist. William Farquhar Conton was born on 5 September 1925 in Bathurst, Gambia, to...
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  • Alexander Grant (British Army officer) (category Governors of Sierra Leone)
    population of Bathurst had increased from about 700 in 1818, to 1,800 in 1826. This was due to an influx of Liberated Africans from Sierra Leone. Grant had...
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  • collected only 5 kilometres (3 miles) from Bathurst. Lieutenant Governor sent an urgent dispatch to Sierra Leone for assistance, seeing the danger posed...
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  • Solomon Athanasius James Pratt (category Sierra Leone Creole people)
    A.J. Pratt or Jolliboy, (25 December 1921 – 28 December 2017) was a Sierra Leone Creole politician, lawyer, and agriculturalist who served under the administration...
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  • three miles from Bathurst, and with the settlement in such imminent danger, the Lieutenant Governor sent an urgent dispatch to Sierra Leone for assistance...
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  • revoked in 1821 and for legislative affairs The Gambia had to turn to Sierra Leone. In 1843, a Legislative Council in The Gambia consisting of the Governor...
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    Western Area Rural District (category Districts of Sierra Leone)
    of the sixteen districts of Sierra Leone. It is located mostly around the peninsula in the Western Area of Sierra Leone. The Western Area Rural District...
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    established Bathurst and the British possessions continued to grow in size through a series of treaties. It was administered from Sierra Leone until 1843...
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  • Charles Heddle (category Scottish people of Sierra Leonean descent)
    Edinburgh. He first set up in business in Banjul (Bathurst) in the Gambia in 1834. He returned to Sierra Leone a few years later. Here he helped his uncle Robert...
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  • High School in Bathurst, and from 1943 to 1947 at St Joseph's Convent, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Fowlis taught domestic science in Bathurst from 1931 until...
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    Dixon Denham (category Governors of Sierra Leone)
    soldier, explorer of West Central Africa, and ultimately Governor of Sierra Leone. Dixon Denham was born at Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, London on New...
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    Bank of British West Africa (category Banks of Sierra Leone)
    1894 — Elder Dempster Co, were appointed agents in Freetown, Sierra Leone and Bathurst, The Gambia for BBWA. BBWA also took over ABC's Tangier branch...
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    respectively. For various periods in its existence it was subordinate to the Sierra Leone Colony. However, by 1888 it was a colony in its own right with a permanently...
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  • Lenrie Peters (category People of Sierra Leone Creole descent)
    1932 in Bathurst (now Banjul) in The Gambia. His parents were Lenrie Ernest Ingram Peters and Kezia Rosemary. Lenrie Sr. was a Sierra Leone Creole of...
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  • National Congress of British West Africa (category Defunct political parties in Sierra Leone)
    first meeting in Accra, a meeting which drew participants from Nigeria, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, and the Gold Coast. During the inaugural meeting of the...
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    Hannah Kilham (category Protestant missionaries in Sierra Leone)
    using her knowledge of Wolof. She taught also at Sierra Leone. Kilham had an Irish assistant in Sierra Leone, Ann Thompson of Cooladine, also a Quaker. In...
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    October - the Point". "Vol inaugural : Transair à la conquête de la Sierra Leone". dakaractu.com. 18 November 2019. Archived from the original on 11 December...
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  • Michael Joseph Moloney (category Presidents of Inter-territorial Catholic Bishops' Conference of The Gambia and Sierra Leone)
    of Inter-territorial Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Gambia and Sierra Leone. He retired on 14 November 1980 due to ill health and in 1981 retired...
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