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Tapani you are a source of vast and peculiar info ;-)

Well so now Carlos can rest assured that I lack piratical lineage...

Bill

> On Oct 22, 2014, at 11:14 AM, Tapani Tarvainen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> [Off topic]
> 
> On Oct 22 10:44, William Drake ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
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>>> On Oct 21, 2014, at 12:01 AM, Carlos Afonso <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>>> I also support William "Bill" Drake, whom I always suspected to be
>>> a descendant of Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Drake, aka El Draque, but
>>> never managed to prove it :(
> 
>> If so, someone in my ancestral line must have lost all the gold
>> doubloons gambling or whatever. Both sides of my family washed onto
>> US shores pretty penniless.
> 
> Well, Sir Francis had no legitimate children, so if you're his
> descendant it'd have to be via some bastard who didn't inherit
> anything. After his death his estate went to his nephew also
> named Francis Drake, but the male line of Drake died after
> that and the baronetcy became extinct.
> So it seems you didn't get even your name from El Draque, unless
> some ancestor of yours stole it in the best pirate tradition. :-)
> 
> -- 
> Tapani Tarvainen

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