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bronte Name Meaning and History

Altered form of Irish Prunty. The change in spelling was probably an early 19th-century development, due to romantic admiration for the English admiral Lord Nelson, on whom the title Duke of Bronte was conferred in 1799 by Ferdinand, King of the Two Sicilies. Bronte is the name of a place in Sicily, literally meaning ‘thunder’.

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Distribution of bronte Families in the US in 1920
Number of bronte families
 3-4
 2-2		 1
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Threads: 11 - Messages: 13
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Bronte davidmillan 0
Emily Jane Bronte who married William Johnston Reynalds davidmillan 0
Emily/Anne Bronte - photographs?? Other Bronte queries... Robert Bell 2
Famous Bronte family (i.e Emily, Charlotte & Anne) rbell35 0
Emory Bronte obituary, Tampa FL 1982 MaryH5577 0
Heslip/Bingham/Bronte/Lennox David 0
Bronte genealogy David M Millan 0
Bronte - Brunty David Millan 0
Lydia Bronte GBLANE 0
Where is she Lydia Bronte 0
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