<div dir="ltr">Funny !<div>;-)</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-10-22 9:28 GMT+00:00 William Drake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com" target="_blank">wjdrake@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Tapani you are a source of vast and peculiar info ;-)<br>
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Well so now Carlos can rest assured that I lack piratical lineage...<br>
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Bill<br>
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> On Oct 22, 2014, at 11:14 AM, Tapani Tarvainen <<a href="mailto:ncuc@TAPANI.TARVAINEN.INFO">ncuc@TAPANI.TARVAINEN.INFO</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> [Off topic]<br>
><br>
> On Oct 22 10:44, William Drake (<a href="mailto:wjdrake@GMAIL.COM">wjdrake@GMAIL.COM</a>) wrote:<br>
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>>> On Oct 21, 2014, at 12:01 AM, Carlos Afonso <<a href="mailto:ca@CAFONSO.CA">ca@CAFONSO.CA</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>>> I also support William "Bill" Drake, whom I always suspected to be<br>
>>> a descendant of Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Drake, aka El Draque, but<br>
>>> never managed to prove it :(<br>
><br>
>> If so, someone in my ancestral line must have lost all the gold<br>
>> doubloons gambling or whatever. Both sides of my family washed onto<br>
>> US shores pretty penniless.<br>
><br>
> Well, Sir Francis had no legitimate children, so if you're his<br>
> descendant it'd have to be via some bastard who didn't inherit<br>
> anything. After his death his estate went to his nephew also<br>
> named Francis Drake, but the male line of Drake died after<br>
> that and the baronetcy became extinct.<br>
> So it seems you didn't get even your name from El Draque, unless<br>
> some ancestor of yours stole it in the best pirate tradition. :-)<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Tapani Tarvainen<br>
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