CHAPTER III.
The Rev.Patrick Bronte is a native of the County Down in Ireland.

His father Hugh Bronte, was left an orphan at an early age.

He came from the south to the north of the island, and settled in the parish of Ahaderg, near Loughbrickland.

There was some family tradition that, humble as Hugh Bronte's circumstances were, he was the descendant of an ancient family.

But about this neither he nor his descendants have cared to inquire.