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: > >>> 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