On Sunday, February 9, 1936 five Broadhurst family members from the Utica area boarded the Snow Train for a day’s outing in Old Forge region. Nine year old Robert T. Broadhurst, his mother, Elizabeth and his 22 year-old cousin Eva Broadhurst are the only known members of this outing. The Snow Trains brought many winter [...]

Who remembers this place? We have Karen Locke Fehr to thank for this photo. Her father, Norman Locke, was a photographer and took this picture of Adams Green Top Cabins in Alexandria Bay, New York. It seems many of you visited as children. The cabins were owned by Arthur and Gertrude Broadhurst Adams, click on [...]

Just a reminder to the group … this is a great newspaper archive website for the various Broadhurst and related familes that had settled around Utica and other parts of New York http://www.fultonhistory.com/ It has a good search tool and the database contains many of the newspapers that covered the parts of the state our [...]

Thanks for stopping by. Broadhurst Families is a new website and blog dedicated to–and finding–the many families around the world related to John BROADHURST and Frances ADSHEAD. John and Frances, married in St. Mary’s Parish church in Stockport, Cheshire in 1839 had five children; Elisha, William, Sarah, Peter and my Great Grandfather, Richard. Our names [...]

These family men all worked at the  predecessor companies that became Niagara Mohawk Power …. Percy BROADHURST 1930 US Census. Six years later the family rented 328 North Genesee St, Utica, NY for $25 a month. Percy was a “Supervisor Heat” for the Utica Gas and Electric Company. He worked for Niagara Mohawk Power Company [...]

These families; ADAMS, ASPIN, BAILEY, BRADBURY, BRADSHAW, BROADHURST, COLLINS, CROSSLEY, DAVIS, HOWARTH (alt HOWORTH) and WOODWARD were a close knit group. Each is related to one of the eleven children of Richard BROADHURST and Sarah Ann JONES. Their families worked in the cotton mills in and around Manchester together; they emigrated from England to the [...]