This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/mbexec/msg/5538/ikJ.2ACIB/1637 Message Board Post: house of lords records 26 oct 1644 william copeland master and part owner of the ship called the robert bonadventure..richard copeland served on board the tonnant 80 belle poule38 cygnet and was in 1830 commander of the mastiff and meteor alias beacon while in gibraltar he seized a notorious pirate and in 1834 he took captive near thasos another famous marauder kara mitzos with 160 of his men richard was son of john copeland esq surgeon of the 7th fusilers and staff surgeon to h.r.h the duke of kent when govener of nova scotia john his wive and youngest son where lost of the sable islands in dec 1799