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Pirate’s descendant makes claim to his £60m bounty
Cynon Valley Leader
|October 09, 2025
A WOMAN who says she descends from pirates believes she could be a potential inheritor of a £60m fortune.
A sketch of Scottish-born pirate William 'Captain' Kidd, circa 1690. Inset: Viki Lopez-Love claims to be a descendant of Long John Stockwell who sailed with Kidd
(HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES)
Viki Lopez-Love, 52, who is originally from Cwmbran and now lives in nearby Griffithstown, found out recently via ancestry websites she is a descendant of 17th-century pirate John Stockwell.
Viki is one of many to believe she is a descendant of the pirate also known as Long John Stockwell and Black Jack Stockwell.
He's believed to have sailed alongside Dundee-born privateer Captain William Kidd before eventually leaving behind sea life and settling down in London where he reportedly bought land now known as the Stockwell-Angell estates which stretches across the city.
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