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Excerpt from Charlotte Bront� and Her Sisters
Scots blood, there is no evidence that there was a particle of blood other than Irish ?owing in the veins of Patrick Branty. His parents were of the peasant class, although his father, Hugh Brunty, would seem to have followed for a long period a number of varied occupations, including work in a limekiln and work in a cornkiln. The book to which we owe the only glimpse of Patrick's par entage, The Brontes in Ireland, by Dr. Wright, is so full of invention that it is di?icult to derive therefrom fragments of truth concerning the ear lier Brontes, or Bruntys. It would seem clear, how ever, that Hugh Brunty married one Alice Mc Clory, who had been brought up in the Roman Catholic faith, but who, after her marriage in the Protestant Church of Magherally, adopted the re ligion of her husband.1 Ten children were born to Hugh and Alice Brunty, and of these Patrick, the eldest, alone has any interest for us.
After such education as the village school af forded, young Patrick Brunty became a weaver.
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