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Our branch of the family's story is typical of many; working Cheshire farms for generations and then with the rise of the Industrial Revolution working the cotton mills of Lancashire. With the start of the 20th Century it's across the Atlantic for a new life in America. Many settled in and around mill towns in the US; Dover, New Hampshire, Lowell, Massachusetts and Utica, New York. This website is dedicated to their many family members everywhere.

Accident or Suicide? The gassy death of Peter Ernest Broadhurst

My paternal Grandfather, Peter Ernest Broadhurst was found dead by a coworker when he didn’t show up to work one morning. His wife, my Grandmother, Elizabeth Aspin Broadhurst was not there at the time. No one is alive to know with absolute certainty if he committed suicide but the marriage was known to be a [...]