Database: The Pirate Barmaid

Kinsale // Ireland // 1702-03-08

Anne Bonny was the illegitimate daughter of an Irish attorney and his housemaid. She moved from Ireland to South Carolina with her father, who settled there as a plantation owner.

Anne married a low-class sailor named James Bonny and they settled in Nassau. James found work at a nearby plantation, and she worked as a waitress at the Old Avery tavern, where she caught the eye of many of its regular patrons.

Within a year of their arrival, the Bonnys' marriage was in shambles. James disappeared into his work, while Anne started taking pirate lovers.