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.

Old Fulton Post Cards

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 [...]

Welcome!

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 [...]