IsabellaLinton wrote:
1. Four generations of my family on both sides were wed at Bradford Cathedral.
2. My GGG grandmother was a midwife for Maria Brontë at the births of Emily's two eldest siblings, Maria and Elizabeth.
3. Emily Brontë's father Patrick baptised and officiated the funerals for many of my ancestors.
1 and 3 are true.
Bradford Cathedral is very significant to my family.
My GGG grandfamily is laid to rest in the St. Michaels and All Angels churchyard, outside the Brontë parsonage.
I have copies of their baptismal records and funeral services, all signed by Patrick Brontë. One was signed by Arthur Bell Nicholls, Patrick's curate and Charlotte Brontë's widower, after Charlotte's death in 1855. Patrick did not preside funerals while in mourning.
Regarding 2: There's local speculation and source material to suggest that a woman in my family was indeed Maria's midwife in Thornton, but I believe she was my GGG grandmother's sister, not my GGG herself. I'm still researching this. Those ancestors emigrated to New Zealand so it's difficult to track.
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