post updated 06 June 09
Karen Locke provided this great picture of various BROADHURST FAMILIES taken in the 1950’s. Karen is the child in the forefront of the photo. Thank you, Karen! Click on photo to enlarge.

Karen Sue Locke Fehr, granddaughter of Nellie Broadhurst (#6) and William T. (#4) daughter of May (#11)
William Arthur “Bill” Broadhurst [...]

In 1841 Cheshire there are 522 BROADHURSTs listed in the England Census as found at FindMyPast.co.uk. 268 males and 284 females live in the 10 Registration Districts as shown in the chart below.  There may very well be more individuals that were perhaps not recorded in the Census or listed at FindMyPast. As an example, [...]

Violet BROADHURST was born in 03 Feb 1893 in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England. She was the youngest daughter and ninth child of Richard BROADHURST and Sarah Ann JONES. On 22 November 1917 she married James E. HUGHES in Lowell, MA. Sometime later she married William DAVIS. Violet is associated with one child in some records but [...]

(updated 02 JAN 10 to include photo)
John Richard BROADHURST was the eldest son of Richard Broadhurst and Sarah Ann JONES and was born on 28 March 1884 in Leigh, England. He was baptized on 17 March 1885 in Newchurch, Lancashire. Richard lived with his parents until at least 1901.
In 1906 at about 22 years old [...]

To help find William BROADHURST, the father of John BROADHURST, I compiled a list of all William BROADHURSTs living in Cheshire that were recorded in the 1841 England Census (Ancestry.com). In total 37 Williams were listed (to include “Wm”) in 31 different households. The household distribution by registration district is: Macclesfield 10, Congleton 7, Stockport 5, Altrincham 4, Nantwich 2 and Ashton under Lyne, Runcorn and Stockton all [...]

Up until today the earliest family group I’ve posted has been John and Frances Adshead BROADHURST. John and Frances are my 2nd great grandparents. Their marriage certificate list’s John’s father as William Broadhurst and Edward Broadhurst as a witness. An 1841 England Census lists what I believe to be his family; William and Mary Broadhurst with children Elizabeth, Ann, [...]

The earliest trans-Atlantic crossing we have for any of the Broadhurst Families relatives is aboard the RMS Empress of Ireland in 1907. The ship is shown above; look below to see who was aboard that voyage and how other relatives made the trip through the years.

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 “Ships” page has been update this day with the following trip information …
S.S. American Importer
Liverpool to Boston

23 September 1939 – 02 October 1939
Mother and son; Edith A. and Donald G. BROADHURST

An excellent resource for finding where our ancestors lived “once upon a time” is this website: e-mapping Victorian Cheshire: Cheshire’s Tithe Maps Online.
In 1842 John and Frances BROADHURST lived in Hale, Cheshire. John and Frances were my 2nd Great Grandparents.  Their house was situated about where the asterisk is shown below and all the land rented by John Broadhurst, at the [...]