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
>



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