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The Brontė sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, were famous English writers of the 1840s and 1850s, three of the six children of the Rev. Patrick Brontė and his wife Maria Branwell. They wrote under the name Bell (Currer, Ellis and Acton) and lived in Haworth, on the Yorkshire Moors .
The only other sibling who is somewhat known is Branwell Brontė. The other two sisters, Maria and Elizabeth died at school in 1824 of tuberculosis. Anne, Emily and Charlotte proved susceptible to the disease and died young, leaving no children. Charlotte lived the longest, to the age of 39.
The Rev. Brontė was the eldest son of Hugh Prunty, also known as Hugh Brunty, and changed the orthography of his last name several times during his lifetime, from Brunty to Branty to Bronte to Bronté to Brontė. The dieresis over the final e indicates that it is pronounced rather than silent.
The spelling changes have been said to have been influenced by the classical figure Bronte, or by the gift of land in the town of Bronte, Sicily in 1799 from Ferdinand I of the Two SiciliesKing Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies ( January 12, 1751 January 4, 1825). He was the third son of King Carlo VII of Naples and Sicily by his wife Maria Amalia of Saxony ( November 24, 1724 September 27, 1760). On August 10, 1759, his father became King Ch to AdmiralThe word admiral comes from the Arabic term amir-al-bahr meaning "commander of the seas. Crusaders learned the term during their encounters with the Arabs, perhaps as early as the 11th century. The Sicilians and later Genoese took the first two parts of t Horatio Nelson.
The Rev. Brontė had no grandchildren and hence has no living descendants.
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