Subj : Pirates To : All From : Mike Dippel Date : Thu Sep 25 2025 09:30:14 This week's Connection Checkers features pirates and privateers. According to wikitree.com I am: 23 degrees from Stede Bonnet 18 degrees from Rene Beluche 17 degrees from Enos Collins 23 degrees from Jeanne de Clisson 21 degrees from Francis Drake 19 degrees from Henry Mainwaring 15 degrees from Pierre Maisonnat 23 degrees from Gr˙inne N˙ Mh˙ille 15 degrees from Simeon Perkins 18 degrees from Kristoffer Tronds 16 degrees from Jan van Haarlem 18 degrees from James Wimble More about them: Stede Bonnet, the "Gentleman Pirate" of the Bahamas, made famous in the recent Netflix comedy "Our Flag Means Death." Rene Beluche, who became a Venezuelan merchant sea captain in the 19th-century Caribbean, as well as privateer, patriot, and associate of the pirate, Jean Lafitte. Enos Collins, merchant, shipowner, banker, and privateer. Jeanne de Clisson, the "Lionness of Brittany," a former noblewoman who became a privateer to avenge her husband after he was executed for treason by the French king. Sir Francis Drake, Elizabethan sailor and navigator, and the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe. Privateer against Spanish shipping. Henry Mainwaring, English lawyer, soldier, author, seaman, and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1622. He was for a time a pirate based in Newfoundland and then a naval officer with the Royal Navy. Captain Pierre "Baptiste" Maisonnat, a privateer who travelled from France to Acadie in Nouvelle-France. Grainne Ni Mhaille, also known as Grace O'Malley, Ireland's pirate queen Col. Simeon Perkins, businessman, office holder, judge, politician, militia officer, privateer, and diarist. Kristoffer Tronds, admiral, feudal lord in Norway and Denmark, privateer captain and pirate. Jan Jansen van Haarlem, first President and Grand Admiral of the Corsair Republic of Sale, Governor of Oualidia, and a Dutch pirate, one of the most notorious of the Barbary pirates from the 17th century; the most famous of the "Sale Rovers". James Wimble, chart maker turned privateer and co-founder of Wilmington, North Carolina. ---- I have some ancestors that were actors, architects, astronauts, Afro-American, bank robbers, boxers, comedians, detectives, pro hockey players, singers and musicians, painters, physicians, politicians, poets, popes, writers. I guess that I am a collection of all of them, as we ALL are. https://www.wikitree.com helps me gather this information with their weekly newsletters. If you would like to find your connections to famous people, you can start by giving me some basic information by going to: https://www.hobbyline.com/genealogy_web_design.htm and click on the 'Request Form' link. I have researched the ancestry for many persons interested in their family history, and I would love to see how WE are related. Mike Dippel https://bbs-list.net List Your BBS For Free * Origin: The Hobby Line! BBS - hobbylinebbs.com (954:895/1) .