Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights is a farmhouse in Yorkshire. It was inhabited by the Earnshaw family from 1500.

Hareton Earnshaw
In 1500, Hareton Earnshaw took up residence there, and had his name and the date inscribed over the top of the doorway. This is assumedly when the house was built

Mr Earnshaw
In 1757, the Earnshaw family are still living at the Heights. In 1771, Mr Earnshaw, father of Hindley and Catherine Earnshaw, brings home an orphan from the streets of Liverpool, who is named Heathcliff. Hindley is sent away to college, but returns as master of the Heights with a wife when Mr Earnshaw dies.

Hindley Earnshaw
Heathcliff runs away in 1780, and Catherine and Nelly move to Thrushcross Grange when Catherine marries Edgar Linton. Hindley, who has been gambling and drinking heavily since Frances died and Hareton Earnshaw was born, mortgages the Heights to pay off his gambling debts. Heathcliff returns and elopes with Isabella Linton, but they return to the Heights, where Isabella lives until she runs away. Hindley dies and the Heights becomes Heathcliff's property, as he was the mortgagee.

Heathcliff
Heathcliff and Hareton live at the Heights, and when Isabella dies, Heathcliff insists that her son, Linton Heathcliff, comes to live at the Heights. When Hareton and Linton's cousin Cathy Linton discovers the Heights, Heathcliff imprisons her and Nelly there until she weds Linton; when Linton dies the ownership of Thrushcross Grange goes to him. Cathy is forced to live at the Heights with Hareton and Heathcliff. When Heathcliff dies, he leaves the Heights and the rest of his property to Hareton.

Masters of the Heights

 * Hareton Earnshaw (1500-?)
 * Mr Earnshaw (?-1775)
 * Hindley Earnshaw (1775-1784)
 * Heathcliff (1784-1802)
 * Hareton Earnshaw (1802-?)