John Broadhurst was the son of John Richard “Jack” and Edith Broadhurst. He died when he was only 13 years old and is buried in Lowell Cemetery. The funeral bearers were Frank Crossley, Carl Costello, Peter Broadhurst and Harry Maguire as noted below. Frank Crossley was the husband of Frances “Fanny” Broadhurst. Carl Costello was [...]

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.

Frank A. Crossley and James E. Hughes were active Buffaloes in the Lowell Herd No 10 of the Benevolent Order of Buffaloes back in the early 1900s. Violet Broadhurst was Frank’s wife’s youngest sister and in 1917 she became Mrs. James E. Hughes … The marriage didn’t last as I note in my posting about [...]

I’ve updated this older post this day. Sarah Ann Jones Broadhurst was the mother of “The Eleven“. I found her obituary today, posted below, at NewspaperArchive.com Previously I had only posted this notice: She lived with her daughter, “Fannie”, Mrs Frank A. Crossley in Lowell, MA at the time of death.

Were any of your relatives buffaloes? No, not the big furry four-legged kind but the two-legged members of the the Benevolent Order of Buffaloes? This was a fraternal organization started in 1881 and by the early 1900s was extinct. By the the 1910s at least there were more lodges or “Herds” as they were called. [...]

Frances M. BROADHURST was born in 1877 in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England. She is first of eleven siblings born to Richard BROADHURST and Sarah Ann JONES. Frances M. married Frank A. CROSSLEY in 1897 at St. Johns at Baxenden, Lancashire. Frank and Fanny had one child: Elizabeth (b abt 1899, Haslingden, Lancashire) 1881 England Census. Four [...]

The Lowell Sun 22 May 1933 Spouse of Frances M. Crossley nee Broadhurst