Coming to Utica, New York toward the end of July 2010 a Broadhurst Families reunion for the descendants of the siblings–”The Eleven”–of Richard and Sarah Ann Broadhurst.
Plans are underway now for our gathering. It looks like we’ll get together centered around the weekend of 24-25 July in Utica. All are welcome and the more the merrier. [...]

The Internet Surname Database web site provides this definition of BROADHURST
This interesting surname is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a habitational name from a minor place so called, perhaps from Broadhurst Manor Farm in Horsted Keynes, Sussex. The placename is derived from the Middle English (1200 – 1500) “brode”, from the Olde English pre 7th Century “brad”, [...]

Aloha Cousins,
Click on the image to the left to view a family tree of known descendants of William (abt 1782-1857) and Mary Broadhurst (abt 1786-1854) . William and Mary are my 3rd great grandparents. They lived many years in Sandbach, Cheshire.

While sifting through old family photos with my cousin Kay, we came across this unidentified wedding group. Neither of us recognized what was probably members of our family. It turns out they are….

The bride is Eva Broadhurst. Eva is the daughter of John Richard and Edith BROADHURST. Twenty-one-ish Eva married Leland Francis Wittenbeck in the Olivet Presbyterian Church in [...]

Aloha cousins,
My wife and I visited my cousin Kay Salkind Schwartz and her husband Barry in late September. Kay and I are grandchildren of Peter and Elizabeth. Their daughter Amy is her mother, son Ernest is my father. I hadn’t seen Kay in at least 40-something years. Maybe 50-ish, but who’s counting. She has a [...]