Seniora Doll, or Senora Doll, was a
Sherbro princess. She held the position of the duchess of the Ya Kumba ruling house of the
Yawri Bay
Yawri Bay is a bay on the coast of Sierra Leone on the Atlantic Ocean.
Geography
Yawri Bay opens to the south-west and is located about 25 km to the south of Freetown. The Banana Islands —including Dublin Island, Ricketts Island and Wolf ...
Area between the
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered to the southeast by Liberia and by Guinea to the north. Sierra Leone's land area is . It has a tropical climate and envi ...
peninsula and the Sherbro estuary. In the late 17th century, she married an
English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Culture, language and peoples
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
* ''English'', an Amish ter ...
trader and
Royal African Company
The Royal African Company (RAC) was an English trading company established in 1660 by the House of Stuart and City of London merchants to trade along the West African coast. It was overseen by the Duke of York, the brother of Charles II of Eng ...
agent,
Thomas Corker
Thomas Corker (1669/1670 – 10 September 1700) was known as an English agent for the Royal African Company on York Island (now Sherbro, Sierra Leone). He married a Sherbro princess and had two sons with her before his early death.
The sons a ...
, and their two sons Stephen and Robin ruled as the first Caulker chiefs through her royal lineage. She died in 1722, twenty-two years after Thomas Corker died in 1700 in
England
England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...
.
References
1722 deaths
Sherbro people
Year of birth unknown
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