Anne Bonny

The illegitimate daughter of an Irish lawyer and his housemaid, Anne was barely in her teens when her family emigrated from Kinsale to South Carolina, where her father settled as a plantation owner. After marrying the low-class sailor named James Bonny, she decided to set off on an adventure to the West Indies. The pair arrived in Nassau in April 1716, settling down without having a clear idea of the direction their lives were going to go in. James eventually found work at one of the island's plantations, while Anne spent most of her time daydreaming. Due to her beauty and indifference to propriety, she quickly became the center of romantic attention, which greatly strained her relationship with her husband, so much so that within a year their marriage had disintegrated. As James disappeared further into his work, Anne grew more confident and sociable, eventually deciding to take on a job as barmaid at the Old Avery tavern, the hub of the island's social life. Rejecting the advances of many a pirate, she was called a tease and a harlot by Nassau's coarser inhabitants, mostly out of envy and spite. But with no high society to shun or shame her, Anne's desirability only increased on the strength of these rumors. While working at the Old Avery, Anne made the acquaintance of many of the Pirate Republic's directors, including Edward Thatch, Benjamin Hornigold, Edward Kenway, Charles Vane and Jack Rackham. Anne requested for an annulment of her marriage, while Rackham offered to pay for a divorce, but James did not relent. Following Adéwalé's departure to join the Assassins, Anne became Edward's quartermaster aboard the Jackdaw, supporting him in his pursuit of Bartholomew Roberts, as well as the Templars Woodes Rogers and Laureano de Torres y Ayala.