Note 1 — STRANGER THAN FICTION. HUGH BRONTË’S COURTSHIP. THE ELOPEMENT OF HUGH BRONTË AND ALICE MCCLORY. Unpublished Chapters from “The Brontës in Ireland.” By Doctor William Wright.
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As we shall see, the parish records of Hugh’s marriage and Patrick’s baptism are both lost, and though Patrick was schoolmaster in Glascar Presbyterian school, and in Drumgooland Episcopalian school, he has left no permanent record behind him in either place. Records in those days were ill-kept.