Was Anne Bonney the female pirate an ancestor of Billy The KID???

[Alan Libby]

In article <33D3E6...@ix.netcom.com>, auth...@ix.netcom.com wrote:

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>
> Obviously, the point I am getting at, is where did the name William
> Bonney come from. Is there a possibility that one of his ancestors could
> have been Ann Bonney?
>
> If you have even the slightest notion that might enhance what little is
> known about the Bonney's it would be most gratefully appreciated.
>
Henry McCarty a.k.a. William Bonney was born in NYC in 1859. Check this
page for further facts: http://www.nmia.com/~btkog/myths.html. He was
not that rutheless of a killer.

A. Libby

[xe...@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu]

If you're writing fiction, you can have it come out any way you want
it. I doubt that even Billy the Kid himself could have told you
whether or not he was descended from her, unless he was a genealogist
on the side. If she lived in the early 1700's, she probably died 150
years before he was born.

- x

In Article <33D3E6...@ix.netcom.com>
author22 <auth...@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>I am a fiction writer who is writing a story based in the early 1700's
>at the time that Piracy more or less came to an end in the Carribean.
>
>Anne Bonney, an English lass who was a female pirate, acquired the name
>Bonney through marriage, and gave birth to a boy child. Eventhough she
>had been sentenced to death for piracy it appears that she escaped that,
>and for the most part dropped out of sight.
>
>Popular myth has her doing either of two things: Retiring under the
>protection of her father in the Carolina's, the other Marrying a Doctor
>Redliffe, and living a quite life.
>
>Neither myth fits her psychological profile. She was someone who had
>lived much of her life as a man. To my way of thinking it strikes me
>much more likely that she became "A land pirate".
>
>The population of the world was a lot less than it is today, and
>certainly that difference is magnified hundreds of times if you restrict
>the observation to the New World.

>
>Obviously, the point I am getting at, is where did the name William
>Bonney come from. Is there a possibility that one of his ancestors could
>have been Ann Bonney?
>
>If you have even the slightest notion that might enhance what little is
>known about the Bonney's it would be most gratefully appreciated.
>

>Please contact me at
>
>AUTH...@aol.com

[Dan McCollum]

Sorry to disappoint you, but Anne Bonney really did marry a doctor and
retire to South Carolina. She was a respected person in the community
and something of a social leader. This is verifiable and documented. It
would still make a good story, perhaps through a cousins connection?