Aloha,

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.

Who are these people? Or, is this a picture of the Richard and Sarah kids?

While visiting cousin Kay we ran across this photo of what looks to be a family grouping of … Broadhursts? I’m just guessing here but I think it may be some portion of “The Eleven” from which many of us are descended. The boys in the back certainly look like brothers and they bear a close resemblance to our grandfather [...]

The descendants of Richard BROADHURST and Sarah Ann JONES

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 [...]