Pirates Weekend Plymouth Landlubber learning: famous pirates - anne bonny married name: Anne Bonny born: Cork, Ireland died: Date and Place Unknown Piracy career: 1718 – 1720 Ship name: The William Interesting fact: Anne Bonny became friendly with another female pirate called Mary Read and they were both pretty ferocious fighters. Disappointing fact: Anne Bonny was only a pirate for a few months! Yo ho it’s a pirates life for anne bonny She was born in Cork, Ireland and was the illegitimate daughter of a lawyer and his servant. She moved to Carolina with both her parents but unfortunately her mother died of typhoid fever when she was just 12 years old. Anne was said to have a fiery temper and apparently stabbed a servant girl with a knife at age 13. She married husband, James Bonny and moved to New Providence Island, also known as the ‘Republic of Pirates’. Whilst there Anne met another Pirate, Calico Jack Rackham, she became involved with him and he offered her husband money to divorce her (which was fairly common practice at the time!) When James refused the two left the island together anyway and Anne became a member of Rackham’s crew, along with fellow pirate, Mary Read. Anne, Read and Rackham were active in pirates until 1920 when their crew was captured. Much of the crew put up little resistance but Anne was determined to put up a fight. Nevertheless, they were all captured at sentenced to execution. Bonny's last words to Rackham were, according to the main account of her life, "Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hang'd like a dog." There are no official records of what became of Bonny, whether death, execution, escape, or continuing to live out her life in prison, her fate is unknown, leading to speculation of what became of her. .