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Captain Wm. KIDD, Pirate, ca1700

Captain Wm. KIDD, Pirate, ca1700

Bob Sterne (View posts)
Posted: 12 Jan 2002 5:44PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 20 Oct 2002 11:25AM GMT
Surnames: Kidd
Does anyone have his ancestry?

Re: Captain Wm. KIDD, Pirate, ca1700

Posted: 8 Apr 2002 4:26AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 31 Oct 2004 1:10AM GMT
Surnames: KIDD, BRADLEY, COX, OORT
I, too, am seeking the ancestry of Captain William KIDD. All I know is that he was born about 1645 in Greenock, Scotland. His father was John KIDD, a Presyterian minister. His mother's name is unknown. In 1691 Captain KIDD married Sarah BRADLEY COX OORT, a wealthy widow who had daughters by previous marriages. I do not know if he had children of his own. I have contacted the author of a book on Captain KIDD -- he knew nothing more than this.

Info I have on Capt KIDD and Joseph BRADISH

Posted: 10 Jan 2003 2:03AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 9 Mar 2005 8:07PM GMT
Surnames: Kidd, Bradish, Bellomont, Wetherly, Ray
Some articles I have in a file:

"Pirates and Prohibition" Excerpted from "East Hampton History" by Jeannette Edwards Rattroy, copyright 1953, printed by Country Life Press, Garden City, NY
(www.longislandgenealogy.com/pirates.html)

Unknown source, photocopies of some pages in a book a lady sent me, pgs 77-84 and looks like book may have been published around 1850. Can snail mail these if interested.

"Pirates and Buccaneers of the Atlantic Coast" by Edward Rowe Snow, The Yankee Publishing Company, 72 Broad Street, Boston, 1944. Has plate ("photo") of KIDD.

My story: I am distantly related to Joseph BRADISH, a pirate, born in Cambridge, Mass 28 Nov 1672. Many mistaken him as being associated with KIDD. The only relationship between the two goes back to the jail in Boston. Caleb RAY, a jailer, was a relative of Joseph BRADISH. He allowed BRADISH and another man (Tee WETHERLY) escape. RAY was discharged of his duties and when BRADISH was captured and put back in the Boston stone jail, he didn't have any family left to let him go again. Between his excape and recapture KIDD was captured and placed in the same jail. Not wanting another escaped pirate, Governor BELLOMONT had KIDD wear irons. KIDD and BRADISH were prisoners on the man-of-war Advice to London. BRADISH and WETHERLY were hanged at Hope Point in London in 1699.

Re: Captain Wm. KIDD, Pirate, ca1700

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 9:43PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Ivan Ridgeway
my son just informed me that he is related to Captain Kidd. His grandfather Tracy Ridgeway did the research, we would love more info on this subject. thank you, tracy france
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