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William Fernandez

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William Fernandez; Pierre Huas (1885)

William Fernandez was a Luso-African in the Pongo River area of Guinea in the early nineteenth century.

In the 1750s William Settel Fernandes married the daughter of a Baga leader.[1]

In 1885, at Rio Nunez, Dr. Bayol, the future governor of Rivières du Sud, met William Fernandez king of the Bramaya.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Brooks, George E. (2003). Eurafricans in Western Africa : commerce, social status, gender and religious observance from the sixteenth to eighteenth century (1. publ. ed.). Oxford: James Currey. ISBN 978-0852554890.
  2. ^ "William Fernandez".