. So who is that lady on the right, does anyone recognize her? Elsie is my maternal Grandmother and Elizabeth my paternal. The lady on the right is only known as a Broadhurst sister. So here’s a guess: Mary “Mae” Broadhurst from England; one of “The Eleven.”  She never moved to America but visited in [...]

While researching your family tree have you found any “forgotten” relatives tucked away in insane asylums? I found one. My maternal Great Aunt, Lillian Schletter. Sometime between 1905 and 1920 Lillian “went after her brother with a kitchen knife.” And that’s the end of the details. Her brother, my maternal Grandfather George Schletter, did visit [...]

On Thursday, 11 May 1882, barely a month before this cartoon ran in Puck magazine, my maternal Great Grandfather, Edmund Theodore Schletter arrived at Castle Garden immigrant landing depot aboard the S.S. Westphalia. Caption: “Castle Garden” Source: Puck Date: June 14, 1882 Artist: Frank Opper Throughout the period of mass immigration, New York City was [...]

Edmund T. Schletter was born on Friday, 18 July 1851 in the Kingdom State of Saxony, Germany. He was the son of Carl and Christiana SCHLETTER. About 1877, when he was 25, he married Wilhelmina “Minna” LUKE (c 1855, in Bergeborbeck, an area of Essen, Germany) in Saxony. She was about 22. Edmund and Wilhelmina [...]

updated 13 June 2009 From a farm in Cheshire to the Cotton Mills of Manchester across the Atlantic to the Mills of Dover, Lowell and Utica, and then even on to the Niagara – Mohawk Power Company, many in this eleven-sibling  family group really stuck together. They are the children of Richard BROADHURST and Sarah [...]

One of the many unexpected things I discovered when starting genealogical research of these families was the large number of trips taken back and forth across the Atlantic. Not knowing ANY of their migration history before I began my research–but suspecting the families to be of modest means–I was expecting much more of this … [...]

It’s not uncommon for families to marry into other families more than once. Is this four times? The Nellie Broadhurst listed in the chart is one of “The Eleven” and I wonder if “Jane Anna” is her older sister. Nellie was 12 years younger than Jane Ann, “Annie” as she was refered to. The wedding [...]

Frank A. Crossley and James E. Hughes were active Buffaloes in the Lowell Herd No 10 of the Benevolent Order of Buffaloes back in the early 1900s. Violet Broadhurst was Frank’s wife’s youngest sister and in 1917 she became Mrs. James E. Hughes … The marriage didn’t last as I note in my posting about [...]

Another great photo thanks to Karen Fehr! Click it to see a larger version and check below to see who’s who, or at least who we know is who. The lady with the question mark is unkown. She could be one of the three oldest Broadhurst “Eleven” siblings, perhaps “Fannie”, “Annie” or Sarah. It is [...]

I’ve updated this older post this day. Sarah Ann Jones Broadhurst was the mother of “The Eleven“. I found her obituary today, posted below, at NewspaperArchive.com Previously I had only posted this notice: She lived with her daughter, “Fannie”, Mrs Frank A. Crossley in Lowell, MA at the time of death.