Which pirate are you most closely connected to?

Question

It's Talk Like A Pirate Day, so we're featuring pirates and privateers in the Connection Finder, beginning with Jan van Haarlem.

Featured alongside him:

• Grace O'Malley
• Pier Gerloffs Donia
• Jean-Baptiste Francisco Lafitte 
• Lasse i Gatan
• Peter Corne
• Captain Henry Morgan
• Henry Mainwaring
• Jeanne de Belleville
• Joseph Bradish Jr
• Fortunatus Wright

Who are you most closely connected to? If you're one of the 23,651,000 of us who are connected to each other on our big tree you can check with the Connection Finder.

You can check for shared ancestors with the Relationship Finder. Are you a cousin to any of them? Your Relationship Finder Quick Links page (see your profile pull-down menu under "Relationships") has quick links for several notable groups.

New special feature: Check out how you're connected to other seafarers by searching the pirates and related categories like privateers, mariners, and sea captains, using the green MyConnections button in the upper right hand corner of the page.

Let us know how you're related below! If you want to share your connection on social media with cousins and friends, click the "get shareable image" below the results, e.g. Gustav Vasa and Richard Lionheart. Then just upload it along with the URL of your direct connection. (Please refrain from sharing your connection on the featured profiles themselves, though. It clutters conversations on research and collaboration. Thanks!)

P.S. Help us choose and improve profiles for next week's feature on the Swing Riots!

Comments

I am a direct decendant of Jan van Haarlem.  He is my 9th great-grandfather.

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I am also a direct descendant of Jan van Haarlem, 9th great grandfather.  Hello Wendy. We are 8th cousins.

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Hello Pat, nice to meet you!

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Henry Mainwaring is my closest connection being 4th cousins.

Answer 1

I'm 14 degrees from Joseph Bradish Jr.

Comments

Henry Mainwaring is my 8th cousin, 12 times removed. We are both descendants of Maud (Percy)Neville. abt. 1340-1379.

Alene Biggs Corbitt,  Biggs-2149

Answer 2

Closest yet - 13 degrees to Joseph Bradish.  Jan van Haarlem and Henry Mainwaring are pretty close too, at 15 degrees.

Just one distant cousin this time: Henry Mainwaring.

Answer 3

Robynne is
18 degrees from Joseph Bradish,
18 degrees from Jean Lafitte,
20 degrees from Fortunatus Wright
21 degrees from Jan van Haarlem,
21 degrees from Henry Mainwaring,
23 degrees from Henry Morgan,
24 degrees from Peter Corne, )
24 degrees from Gráinne O'Malley,
24 degrees from Rob Graham
25 degrees from Jeanne de Belleville,
28 degrees from Lars Gathenhielm,
36 degrees from Pier Gerloffs Donia,

Not surprisingly, the first two names are through my french canadian spouse - most of the rest of these names are through my english and scottish lines.

Question, why is Mary Bonney not listed? Or the female Pirate named Bonney - not too sure of her first name.

Answer 4

15 degrees from Joseph Bradish
16 degrees from Henry Mainwaring (5th cousins, 14x removed)
17 degrees from Jan van Haarlem
17 degrees from Jean Lafitte
19 degrees from Peter Corne
20 degrees from Henry Morgan
21 degrees from Fortunatus Wright
22 degrees from Gráinne O'Malley
24 degrees from Lars Gathenhielm
25 degrees from Jeanne de Belleville
31 degrees from Pier Gerloffs Donia

Answer 5

I am most closely connected to Joseph Bradish at 19 degrees.

Answer 6

9th cousin 11xremoved from Henry Mainwaring...

Comments

Henry Mainwaring is my 11th cousin 11Xremoved we share Isabel Bardolf as Grandmother Mainwaring's10th Grandmother My 21st Grandmother.

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Richard 1 is 2nd Cousin 27Xremoved.

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Gustav Vasa is a VERY distant Cousin

Answer 7

My closest relation, as well as the only one I'm related to, is Henry Mainwaring at 15 degrees. He's my 1st cousin, 12x removed. I've seen that surname pop up lots of times using the relationship finder, so I knew he was a sure thing, lol.

Answer 8

Grace O'Malley is my 15th great-grandmother - direct bloodline. I didn't know that.

Answer 9

17 degrees from Henry Morgan.

17 degrees from Joseph Bradish.

17 degrees from Henry Mainwaring. 3rd cousin 14 times removed. MRCA Elizabeth (Vernon) Corbet (abt 1479 - 1563).

18 degrees from Jan von Haarlem.

18 degrees from Grainne O'Malley.

19 degrees from Fortunatus Wright.

22 degrees from Jean Lafitte.

22 degrees from Lars Gathenhielm.

22 degrees from Peter Corne.

23 degrees from Jeanne de Belleville.

33 degrees from Pier Gerloffs Donia.

I'm adding one for good measure.

19 degrees from Francis Drake. 7th cousin 11 times removed. MRCA Anne (Bodrugan) Cole (b. 1360 - ?).

Answer 10

The closest is Jan van Haarlem at 14 degrees. He is my 12th great, grandfather.

Jeanne de Belleville is my 20th great, grandmother.

Comments

Jan is my 10th Great Grandfather. 12 Degrees.

24 degrees from Jeanne, no relation.

However, I grew up with a Belleville Family.  There were four of them, all about a year apart except for the last two who were 2 years apart.  I filled the space.  They are my other family.

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Roger, we are 5th cousins, 2x removed.  You are one of the closest cousins I have on WikiTree.

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Michael:

         That's wonderful.  I can always use more close relatives and you are also the closest on that I have found on WikiTree.

          Regards.

                                             Roger

Answer 11

Well he’s not there there but I am connected to William Kidd the Pirate he’s a cousin only. But his profile not made out totally. 

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Kidd-1

Billie

Answer 12

I am most closely connected to Henry Mainwaring at 16 degrees of separation.

• 16 degrees from Henry Mainwaring
• 17 degrees from Joseph Bradish
• 18 degrees from Jan van Haarlem
• 19 degrees from Henry Morgan
• 22 degrees from Fortunatus Wright
• 23 degrees from Jean Lafitte
• 23 degrees from Gráinne O'Malley
• 23 degrees from Peter Corne
• 24 degrees from Lars Gathenhielm
• 26 degrees from Jeanne de Belleville
• 29 degrees from Pier Gerloffs Donia

Answer 13

Jan van Haarlem is 15 Degrees from Erik Granstrom, I am a 13th great grandson.

I read a book called "Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean" which featured many men similar to Jan van Haarlem.  I believe this ancestry would be Jewish from Spain or Portugal.

Answer 14

• 16 degrees from Jan (Jansz) van Haarlem
• 16 degrees from Joseph Bradish
• 18 degrees from Peter Corne
• 18 degrees from Henry Mainwaring - 7C11xr
• 20 degrees from Henry Morgan
• 21 degrees from Grace O'Malley
• 21 degrees from Jean-Baptiste Francisco Lafitte
• 23 degrees from Fortunatus Wright
• 25 degrees from Lars (Gathe) Gathenhielm
• 26 degrees from Jeanne de Belleville
• 32 degrees from Pier Gerloffs Donia

Adding one more 

• 20 degrees from Francis Drake - 5C15xr

Answer 15

• 19 degrees from ye matey Jan van Haarlem
• 21 degrees from ye matey Henry Morgan
• 26 degrees from ye matey Jeanne de Belleville
• 16 degrees from ye matey Joseph Bradish
• 21 degrees from ye matey Peter Corne
• 33 degrees from ye matey Pier Gerloffs Donia
• 27 degrees from ye matey Lars Gathenhielm
• 18 degrees from ye matey Jean Lafitte
• 19 degrees from me 8th cousin 17 removed, Henry Mainwaring
• 21 degrees from ye matey Gráinne O'Malley
• 24 degrees from ye matey Fortunatus Wright

And if ye seeks me treasure, ye find not'n but the stories of me ancestors o' mine! Yarr! (How'd I do speaking like a pirate?)

Comments

Ha!  Excellent, Jennifer!  Enjoyed reading.  :)

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Thank ye, 9th cousin 3 times removed!

^_^  *waves*

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*waving back* Hello Cousin! (Also possibly fellow Washingtonian?)  Loved your profile.  Your days traveling with the circus were amazing!  It looks like we are related through both my maternal grandmother and grandfather, several times over.

Answer 16

WOW!!  I never knew!

• 17 degrees from Jan van Haarlem
• 20 degrees from Henry Morgan
• 24 degrees from Jeanne de Belleville
• 14 degrees from Joseph Bradish - thru a blended family result to my great Aunt
• 22 degrees from Peter Corne
• 33 degrees from Pier Gerloffs Donia
• 26 degrees from Lars Gathenhielm
• 21 degrees from Jean Lafitte
• 17 degrees from Henry Mainwaring
• 21 degrees from Gráinne O'Malley
• 20 degrees from Fortunatus Wright
• 22 degrees from Rob Graham

Answer 17

11 degrees, I am a direct decendant of Jan van Haarlem.  He is my 9th great-grandfather.

Answer 18

Of the featured pirates and privateers, the closest is Joseph Bradish, Jr., the brother-in-law of my great-grandaunt's 5x-great-grandaunt-in-law. (15 degrees).

Nearest Blood Relatives:

• Sea Captain Martin Cole is my fourth cousin 6x removed. (16 degrees)
• Privateer Willliam Parker is my 13th great-granduncle (17 degrees)

Nearest Connections through marriage:

• Privateer Patrick Maxfield is the nephew of my 8x-great-grandaunt's son's wife. (14 degrees)
• Mariner Ashey Bowen is the nephew of my 8x-great-grandaunt. (14 degrees)
• the pirate John Derby is the great-grandfather of my 3x-great-grandaunt's great-granduncle-in-law. (15 degrees).

Answer 19

Jan van Haarlem is the closest.

Answer 20

Jan van Haarlem, is 25 degrees through my side of the family and 17 degrees through my DH's family.