RobertLee
Commander of the Confederate armies.
Connection: Misnomer. There is no known Welsh connection (unless you know better?)
comment by:vacymro
Robert e. Lee's ancestry was completely English. ...
... in the blast. A naval surgeon offered treatment but was refused. Bull complained all day saying Roberts would have Olge's guts for garters when he caught him. These outbursts earned him a lashing in spite ...
... an attack on Porto-Nova in Whydah (present-day Benin, West Africa) they found eleven ships, all with little more than caretaker crews aboard, the rest working ashore.
Roberts had hit the jackpot again. ...
John Callice
Piracy, smuggling and probably murder, bribery and assorted other nastiness too.
Connection: Actual birth place is uncertain but by all accounts he seems to have originated from South Wales ...
... C. Davis. His wife, Varina Howell, was also of Welsh descent. Unfortunately saying someone has a Welsh name (Davis) does not make them Welsh.
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RobertLee,
American ...
... This family was from the Rhondda Valley. comment by:LeeMRoberts There was a reference to this in last month's feature on Bowie in mojo magazine. In one interview, I believe it might have been with ...
... a well-to-do farmer, Robert Morgan, he early took to the seafaring life.
We should note he was a buccaneer rather than pirate.
When quite a young man Morgan went to Barbados, but afterwards he settled ...
Abraham Lincoln
President of the USA. Perhaps the greatest statesman to grace the American political theatre.
Connection: Maternal grandparents were called Morris from Ysbyty Ifan, North Wales.
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