Avery, Henry [known as Captain John Avery] (bap. 1659, d. 1696
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Avery, Henry [known as Captain John Avery] (bap. 1659, d. 1696?), pirate
David Cordingly
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Barry, Lording (bap. 1580, d. 1629), playwright and pirate
David Kathman
Barry, Lording (bap. 1580, d. 1629), playwright and pirate, was baptized on 17 April 1580 in St Laurence Pountney, St Laurence Pountney Lane, London, the fifth of eleven children of Nicholas Barry (d. 1607), citizen and fishmonger, and his second wife, Anne (...
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Bonnet, Stede (d. 1718), pirate
Robert C. Ritchie
Bonnet, Stede (d. 1718), pirate, may have been a soldier as he was given the title of major during his trial, where he was also treated as an educated gentleman by the officers of the court. The most that can at present be said about his family is that he is probably the ...
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Bonny, Anne (1698–1782), pirate
David Cordingly
Bonny, Anne (1698–1782), pirate, was born near Cork in Ireland. Evidence from her descendants suggests that she was the illegitimate daughter of William Cormac, lawyer, and his maidservant. Cormac, who raised his daughter as a boy, found his legal practice so affected by his affair that he decided to go abroad. Taking ...
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Crab, John (c. 1280–c. 1352), pirate and merchant
Elizabeth Ewan
Crab, John (c. 1280–c. 1352), pirate and merchant, was probably born in Muiden in Flanders. Active as a pirate from at least 1306, he was the most notorious of the Flemish privateers who preyed on English shipping during the Scottish War of Independence. His nephew ...
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Drake, Sir Francis (1540–1596), pirate, sea captain, and explorer
Harry Kelsey
Drake, Sir Francis (1540–1596), pirate, sea captain, and explorer, was born about February or March 1540 in Crowndale, near Tavistock, Devon, the eldest of five known children of Edmund Drake (d. 1566) of Tavistock. Edmund's wife is unknown, though she may have been named ...
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Eustace the Monk (c. 1170–1217), Benedictine monk, sea captain, and pirate
D. A. Carpenter
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Eustace the Monk (c. 1170–1217), Benedictine monk, sea captain, and pirate, was the son of Baudoin Busket, a lord of the county of Boulogne. According to his biography, Eustace studied black magic in Toledo, returned home to become a monk at the abbey of ...
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Gow, John (1698–1725), pirate
Samuel Pyeatt Menefee
Gow, John (1698–1725), pirate, was born either at Scrabster, near Thurso, or at Wick. Details of his background and upbringing are unknown until September 1699, when he moved with his merchant father's family to Stromness in the Orkney Islands. It is believed that ...
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Green, Thomas (1679/80–1705), seaman and pirate
Samuel Pyeatt Menefee
Green, Thomas (1679/80–1705), seaman and pirate, of unknown parentage, was brother to John Green, a London attorney. In 1701, when his age was said to be twenty-one, Captain Green, commanding the frigate-built Worcester, chartered by Thomas Bowrey, weighed anchor for India to obtain a cargo of cowries, pepper, turmeric, and saltpetre. This was a ...
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Griffith, Piers (1568–1628), pirate
John C. Appleby
Griffith, Piers (1568–1628), pirate, was probably born at Penrhyn in Caernarvonshire, the eldest son of Sir Rhys Griffith (d. 1580), MP and high sheriff of Caernarvonshire, and his third wife, Katherine, daughter of Peter Mostyn of Talacre. His father was a prominent figure in ...
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Gwyn, David (fl. 1588–1602?), poet and pirate
John Bennell
Gwyn, David (fl. 1588–1602
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Halsey, John (1663?–1709?), privateer turned pirate
James William Kelly
Halsey, John (1663
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Hawley, John, the elder (c. 1350–1408), pirate, merchant, and administrator
Susan Rose
Hawley, John, the elder (c. 1350–1408), pirate, merchant, and administrator, of Dartmouth, Devon, was the younger son of the first John Hawley who settled in Dartmouth some time before 1340. Hawley was elected mayor for the first time in 1374—the beginning of a career which would make him the richest and most important man in ...
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Johnson, Captain (1771/2–1839), smuggler and pilot
J. K. Laughton
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Johnson, Captain (1771/2–1839), smuggler and pilot, was in 1798 captured in an affray with revenue officers on the Sussex coast and imprisoned in the new gaol in the Borough in London, from which he made his escape 'in a most daring way...
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Kidd, William (c. 1645–1701), pirate and privateer
Robert C. Ritchie
Kidd, William (c. 1645–1701), pirate and privateer, was a Scot, by tradition born in Greenock, Renfrewshire, into the family of a Church of Scotland minister; however, the names of his parents are not known and his date of birth is derived from his age, about fifty-six, when he died. He does not appear in the historical record until 1689 when he was a member of a pirate crew brought into service by ...
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