One of his sons was the well-known writer of the first Bube primer William Napoleon Barleycorn.
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Bébo's Girl, the title of the English translation of Carlo Cassola’s 1960 novel La ragazza di Bube
The first Bube-to-English primer was authored in 1875 by William Barleycorn, a colonial era Primitive Methodist missionary of Igbo and Fernandino descent, while he was serving in the Bubi village of Basupu.
Janssens (1992–93) posits that they are all of Guthrie's zone A.60 languages, half of his A.40 languages, and perhaps Bube (A.31).