| Mrs. Guthrie | |
|---|---|
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| Vital statistics | |
| Title | {{{title}}} |
| Gender | Female |
| Status | Deceased |
| Ships | None |
| Relationships | Richard Guthrie (husband; deceased)
Eleanor Guthrie (daughter; deceased) |
| Appearances | First Mentioned: II.
Last Mentioned: XV. |
| Portrayed by | N/A |
Mrs. Guthrie was the wife of Richard Guthrie and mother of Eleanor Guthrie. She was killed in the Rosario Raid, the retaliatory strike against her husband's growing pirate empire.
Biography[]
Background[]
Richard had always been on the outside looking in when it came to the family business. At some point, he moved his wife and daughter to Nassau, which was becoming a haven for pirates and privateers during the War of the Spanish Succession. Richard began fencing the pirates' cargo, posing their plunder as legitimate goods and selling them in the colonies using the company's ships[1].
Spain grew increasingly angry with this, and sent a force of 200 men to assault Nassau. Due to the disrepair Fort Nassau had fallen into, they landed with ease and burned and killed their way through the island. Amongst the dead was Mrs. Guthrie. After this, a heartbroken Richard moved to Harbour Island, leaving Eleanor and the day-to-day of the fence in the hands of his slave, Mr. Scott[2].
Season One[]
Max begs Eleanor to flee Nassau with her, saying that there is nothing for her in Nassau; her father left her and her mother was taken from her[3].
Eleanor tries to persuade her father Richard to help her find a partner they can trust so they can remain in business in Nassau, while he convalesces following his gunshot injury during the Royal Navy’s attempt to arrest him. When he refuses to respond, Eleanor grows angry and warns him that his two choices are to face the gallows or flee to his parents and brothers in Boston and beg for sanctuary. Eleanor tells him that if he does that he’ll be back on the outside of the inner circle, just as he was before he brought Eleanor and her mother to Nassau and they made him into the man that he always insisted he was[1].
Season Two[]
When Richard Guthrie returns to Nassau, he tries to explain to Eleanor that he has actually been trying to help her while taking sanctuary at the Underhill Estate. Eleanor responds that Richard abandoned her in Nassau after his wife was killed in the Rosario Raid. When asked what kind of a person does that to a little girl and asks her to trust him again, Richard says that her mother’s death was unbearable for him and in that moment the only way he saw to console himself was to immerse himself in business and remove himself from Nassau. Eleanor calls this answer “bullshit” and replies that it wasn’t about her mother but the fact that Eleanor was a girl. Richard admits that this is the truth[2].
Season Four[]
After the Fall of Nassau, Mrs. Hudson asks Eleanor if it would not be more worthwhile for the pregnant Eleanor and Woodes Rogers to simply leave Nassau rather than stay and raise a child in a violent environment. Eleanor recalls an argument that Richard and her mother had when she was young when they first moved to Nassau. Her mother had argued that Nassau was too cruel a place to raise a little girl[4].
Quotes[]
"You'll be right back in the parlor room listening through a crack in the door to where the real business is being done. Back to where you started before you brought Mother and myself here and we made you into the man that you always insisted to them that you were."
- Eleanor to Richard in III.