6.īlackbeard had a fearsome reputation but multiple witness accounts never report any violence from him until his last, fatal battle.
Sometime between 17, Edward Thache Junior went from being a sailor in the Royal Navy aboard HMS Windsor to becoming a pirate. The family owned a plantation and slaves which were deeded to Blackbeard in 1706. Records show the Thache family with a young Blackbeard moved to Spanish Town in Jamaica around 1695. Bristol was a hub of activity as it was one of the ports that operated under the Royal Africa Company (RAC)’s monopoly of slave trading. Although no slaves en-masse were transported into Bristol (the slave markets were in the Americas and Caribbean), the goods made in exchange for slaves were loaded onto ships here and goods such as tobacco and sugar were unloaded from the West Indies. 4.īristol at the time was a major port for slave merchants. He later remarried after the death of his first wife and had a further 3 children. 3.Įdward Thache Senior was a mariner and moved to Bristol after his marriage with his first two children Edward ‘Blackbeard’ and Elizabeth. Blackbeard’s grandfather, the Rev Thomas Thache, was the rector at the church before eventually moving to nearby Sapperton, Gloucestershire where most of the family is buried. 2.īlackbeard’s father - Edward Thache Senior – was born in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire on June 14 1659, and was baptised two weeks later at St Cyr’s Church, which is next door to a large manor house which is now Stonehouse Court Hotel.
1.īlackbeard’s real name was Edward Thache and was likely to have been born in Bristol sometime around 1680.
We take a look at some little known facts about this infamous highwayman of the seas. Edward Thache (aka ‘Blackbeard’) met his fate on 22 November 1718 and was thus immortalised as a pirate legend.
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