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Anne Bonny
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| Pirate Name: Anne Bonny | Born: between 1697 and 1705 |
| Hailed from: County Cork, Ireland | Died:1782 but not 100% sure : ) |
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| Early Life: Her father, attorney William Cormac, had an affair with his maidservant Mary or Peg Brennan. She became pregnant with Anne and the affair became public. William married Ms. Brennan then moved the family from Ireland to Charleston, South Carolina. There he made a fortune and bought a plantation where Anne grew up. |
| How she became a pirate: When Anne was 16, she fell in love with and married a small time pirate (privateer? pirate hunter?) named James Bonny. Her father disowned her. James moved with Anne to the Bahamas. There she began to mingle with pirates. James began turning pirates in to the governor of Nassau. Anne despised him, finding herself more attracted to the real pirates - like "Calico" Jack Rackham. She met Jack Rackham and had an affair. In order to avoid superstition and join Jack's crew, Anne dressed herself up as a man. |
| Her main territory: Bahamas, Jamaica, and the Turk and Caicos Islands. |
| Famous/Infamous for: She was a female pirate. She never commanded her own ship. |
| Notable battles: Jonathan Barnet, employee of the Jamacian government attacked Rackham and his crew while they were drunk. Anne Bonny and Mary Read were sober and "fought fiercely" while managing to "hold off Barnet's troops." The entire crew was captured. |
| Notable quote: As her mate Jack was brought to trial, she visited him on the morning of his execution and said "I am sorry to see you here, but if you had fought like a man, you needn't be hang'd like a dog." |
| Finally met her end: Mysteriously disappeared At her trial, both her and Mary Read were sentenced to hang. But, they were spared when they "plead their bellies." Meaning they were both pregnant, so the court would not hang an innocent child. It is said that both were carrying Calico Jack Rackham's child. And both ladies had given birth to a child before. Mary died in prison before the sentence could be carried out, and their are two stories of what happened to Anne. One was that a Doctor had taken fancy to ther and notified her father who was known in Jamaica, and had pull with the Governor, enough to get her pardoned. The other story was that Anne, on a previous occasion told the Governor of a plot to kill him, and he pardoned her with the proviso that she leave the Caribbean and never return. And as stated previously, she did disappear. (Note: I am writing a novel, and as a result of research the facts reported are everything that is known of what happened to Anne and Mary) |
| Biggest myths: Anne started a fire on here father's plantation in retaliation for her father disowning her over marrying the pirate James Bonny. Also rumoured to have had a sexual relationship with Mary Reade |
More Detailed Bio
Anne Bonny was born in County Cork, in Ireland. She traveled to the Caribbean with her husband, James Bonny. James Bonny was either a small time pirate himself, a privateer in the employ of the British Crown, or a Pirate Hunter, paid by either the Royal Governor of the Bahamas or the Crown of England. Whatever the truth is, Anne Bonny became enamoured of the pirate life. She disguised herself as a man, and joined Calico Jack Rakham's crew, along with Mary Reade. Anne and Mary met, and discovered each other's true gender, which they agreed to keep secret. Afterward, it is rumoured, she began a romantic affair with Mary Reade. She and Mary were allegedly discovered when Calico Jack walked in on the two of them, "in the act." He evidently kept the secret, probably in exchange for sexual favours. Other sources suggest that Jack became jealous of Anne's friendship with Mary. When Mary revealed that she was a woman, Jack was pacified, understanding that theirs was a friendship, nothing more.Anne Bonny stayed undercover as a man, until she became pregnant with Jack's child. She spent her preganancy on an island in the Caribbean with Jack's friends. After giving birth, she returned to the ship. She was eventually accepted as a member of the crew. Some rumours suggest that James, assuming he was a pirate hunter, employed Anne as a spy, no evidence exists to support the claim.
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Very interesting character living in a time when women had little if any rights.
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