Yer real name

[Iron Hand]

My given name is Terry......When I asked me Dar, why they gave me that name, he said there was a popular comic strip named Terry & the Pirates and he liked the name...Ironic isn't it.

By the way Rumba.....Nancy was a very popular name during the colonial days...

[Iron Hand]

Well my name be John. No big surpise there. David Sons be my middle and last name.

Wonder why yer parents didn't name ya Harley.

[Capn Bloody Sam Rackham]

Paul be me first name. Yes, after the Saint.

[Capn Antonio Malasses]

I be Tony. Thus the reason for Antonio.

Capn Antonio Malasses

[AlexRoberts]

Alex is my first

Robert is my middle

[Iron Jon]

Jonathan "Iron Jon" Washbourne is really Jon Hinman - 11th generation descendant of Edward Hinman, who arrived at Boston in June 1650 as a crewman aboard the William and George of London.

Jonathan Washbourne, my pirate name, was taken from this story in the county records of Plymouth, MA - "In July 1701 Jonathan Washbourne Junr of Bridgwater appeared in court and was ordered to pay £5 fees and charges or be publicly whipped 20 stripes for his abusive and uncivil behaviour to Elizabeth Canaday Late of said Bridgwater by Thrusting up or putting of a skunk under the Cloaths to her Naked Body And then saying he had Done the office of a midwife. Washbourne paid the fine and became bound to his good behaviour until next term.”

(Washburn also happens to be the maiden name of my grandmother.)

[William Brand]

Jonathan "Iron Jon" Washbourne is really Jon Hinman - 11th generation descendant of Edward Hinman, who arrived at Boston in June 1650 as a crewman aboard the William and George of London.

Jonathan Washbourne, my pirate name, was taken from this story in the county records of Plymouth, MA - "In July 1701 Jonathan Washbourne Junr of Bridgwater appeared in court and was ordered to pay £5 fees and charges or be publicly whipped 20 stripes for his abusive and uncivil behaviour to Elizabeth Canaday Late of said Bridgwater by Thrusting up or putting of a skunk under the Cloaths to her Naked Body And then saying he had Done the office of a midwife. Washbourne paid the fine and became bound to his good behaviour until next term.”

(Washburn also happens to be the maiden name of my grandmother.)

That's awesome. This thread is worth the reading of those charges alone.

[Zingara Carmella]

Eneida is the Portuguese corruption for Aenid

The Aeneid (pronounced /əˈniːɪd/; in Latin Aeneis, pronounced [ajˈneːis]—the title is Greek in form: genitive case Aeneidos) is a Latin epic poem written by Virgil in the late 1st century BC (29–19 BC) that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is composed of roughly 10,000 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas' wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half tells of the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed.

The hero Aeneas was already known to Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad; Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas' wanderings, his vague association with the foundation of Rome and a personage of no fixed characteristics other than a scrupulous piety, and fashioned this into a compelling founding myth or nationalist epic that at once tied Rome to the legends of Troy, glorified traditional Roman virtues and legitimized the Julio-Claudian dynasty as descendants of the founders, heroes and gods of Rome and Troy.

[Elena]

Yes, my real name is Elena. Or, rather, I have two, Lelia-Elena, but I like Elena far more.