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Anne Bonny [a] (disappeared after 28 November 1720) [4] was a pirate who served under John "Calico Jack" Rackham. Amongst the few recorded female pirates in history, [ 5 ] she has become one of the most recognized pirates of the Golden Age of Piracy as well as in the history of piracy in general.
Anne Bonny, Irish American pirate whose brief period of marauding the Caribbean during the 18th century enshrined her in legend as one of the few to have defied the proscription against female pirates. Learn more about Bonny’s life and piracy in this article.
Anne Bonny (also Bonney) was an Irish-born pirate who briefly operated in the waters around the Bahamas before her capture by the Jamaican authorities in 1720.
The daughter of an Irish lawyer, Anne Bonny charted her own course and became a daring pirate alongside Mary Read and Calico Jack in the early 1700s. Whether she was wielding a sword or firing one of her many pistols, Anne Bonny was among the most fearsome pirates of her time.
Anne Bonny (1700–1782, exact dates uncertain) was an Irish pirate and privateer who fought under the command of "Calico Jack" Rackham between 1718 and 1720. Together with fellow female pirate Mary Read, she was one of Rackham's more formidable pirates, fighting, cursing, and drinking with the best of them. She was captured along with the rest ...
Anne Bonny was a pirate active in the Caribbean between 1718 and 1720. She was born around the turn of the 1700s in Ireland, the daughter of lawyer William Cormac and his domestic servant, Mary Brennan. When William’s wife discovered he had taken Anne in, she cut off his financial support.
Not that Anne Bonny and Mary Read had much in common with kindly old David O’Keefe—they were pirates, for one thing, as renowned for their ruthlessness as for their gender, and during...
Anne Bonny was an Irish pirate operating in the Caribbean and one of the most famous female pirates of all time. Born in the Kingdom of Ireland around 1700, Bonny moved to London and then to the Province of Carolina when she was about 10 years old.
Anne Bonny is one such pirate. The first mention of the pirate Anne Bonny comes from A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates, written by Captain Johnson, a suspected alias of Daniel Defoe, in 1724. Johnson’s book is known for being both very popular and highly dramatized. However, his story did the job of ...
Pirate Profile: Anne Bonny. In about 1698, a young woman found herself in jail for stealing, pregnant with her married employer’s illegitimate child and no husband to support her.