Database: Anne Bonny (Resynced)
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Born: 1702, Ireland
Died: Unknown
Anne was barely a teen when she left her native Cork in Ireland for the British colonies, and by sixteen she was en route to West Indies at side of her new husband, Mr. Jack Bonny, a gentle but sturdy young man in his early 20s.
The pair arrived in Nassau in April of 1716, settling down with an unclear idea of what shape their lives might take. Jack eventually found work on one of the small plantations there, while Anne cultivated her ability to loaf and daydream. Unfortunately, her beauty, aloofness, and complete indifference to propriety made her the object of more romantic attention than she had ever known or cared for.
Within a year of arriving in Nassau, the Bonnys' marriage was in shambles, a union only in name. While Jack disappeared further into his work, Anne grew more confident and sociable, eventually taking a job as a barmaid at the popular Old Avery tavern in the center of Nassau. And though she took on a few lovers in the next few years, it was mostly out of envy and spite that the rabble of Nassau branded Anne a harlot and a tease. But with no high society to shun or shame her, Anne's desirability only increased on the strength of these rumors.
After living and working in Nassau to no great purpose, Anne eventually fell for the roguish charms of "Calico" Jack Rackham. A man who had already fallen into and out of piracy, Rackham was just the sort of character to lure Anne away from her dull marriage.
It was also around this time that Anne befriended Mary Read, whose manly disguise she had seen right through. The two grew to be close friends, much to the consternation of Rackham, who threatened Mary with violence for flirting with his prize. Mary, to diffuse the situation, revealed herself to Rackham too... much to his delight no doubt.
A few months later, for reasons not entirely clear, Anne, Mary and Rackham raised a small crew, slipped aboard a marooned schooner, and sailed from Nassau's port under cover of darkness. Their goal was to execute a series of swift robberies before retiring with enough gold to live on, but once again Rackham's incompetence proved disastrous.
Within 3 months of setting out, Anne and Mary found themselves alone on the deck of their stolen, damaged schooner, fighting off waves of British soldiers as Jack and the rest of his crew lay below deck, passed out from a heavy night of drinking. They were outnumbered, and quickly detained. The British authorities, surprised to find two women fighting so fiercely as pirates, deigned to make a show of their subsequent trial. But Anne and Mary had a plan of their own. Unbeknownst to the British, both were pregnant—Anne by Rackham, most likely, and Mary by an unnamed sailor—a fact which they revealed just as the judge passed a sentence of execution on them.
Owing to the fact of them being "quick with child", the judge stayed their executions until the came to term. Some 4 months later, Mary had her child, but died soon after in prison of a terrible infection. Anne, however, was rescued by Edward Kenway and the Assassin master Ah Tabai just in time to give birth at the Assassin camp at Tulum. The child, a boy, died soon after and struggling with the loss of her son and friends, Anne became deeply depressed.
Not long afterward Edward returned to Tulum. With Adéwalé having left to join the Assassins, the Jackdaw was in need of a new quartermaster. Anne agreed to replace him and took to her new role with gusto, helping in the pursuit of Sage Bartholomew Roberts, Templar Woodes Rogers and Grand Master Laureano de Torres, and the eventual defeat of British pirate hunter Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
Despite being coyly invited by Edward to return to England with him, Anne chose to stay at Great Inagua, though she lacked the conviction to join the Assassins.
Anne's final fate is uncertain. It was commonly assumed that her father eventually came for her, and spirited her back to the British colonies in North America. A burial record found in archives for St. Catherine Parish in Jamaica suggesting she might have died at or near Spanish Town in 1733 remains the subject of historical debate.