Funny ! ;-) 2014-10-22 9:28 GMT+00:00 William Drake <[log in to unmask]>: > 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 > -- Olévié Ayaovi Agbenyo KOUAMI Directeur Général de GiDa-OKtetS (Représentations commerciales et négoces) Directeur Exécutif et CEO de l'INTIC4DEV (Institut des TIC pour le développement) SG de ESTETIC - Association Togolaise des professionnels des TIC ( http://www.estetic.tg) ICANN-NPOC Communications Committee Chair (http://www.icann.org/ et http://www.npoc.org/) Membre du FOSSFA (www.fossfa.net) et Membre de de Internet Society ( www.isoc.org) BP : 851 - Tél.: (228) 90 98 86 50 / (228) 98 43 27 72 Skype : olevie1 FB : @olivier.kouami.3 Twitter : #oleviek Lomé - Togo