WHAT WAS BLACKBEARDS REAL NAME?
FACT SHEET Blackbeard the Pirate Historical sources vary as to Blackbeard’s real name. Though most publications mentioning the pirate by name over the past couple of centuries have identified him as Edward Teach, the majority of primary source documents written during the time of his activities indicate that “Thatch” or some other phonetic derivation (i.e., Thach, Thache, etc.), was actually the name he was going by at the time. The name Drummond is mentioned by one early source, but this is not supported by the vast volume of other documentation.
