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.

Violet BROADHURST and James E. HUGHES and later William DAVIS

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 [...]

Elizabeth and Robert T Broadhurst aboard the SS Baltic and SS Britannic

One of the many unexpected things I discovered when starting genealogical research of these families was the large number of trips taken back and forth across the Atlantic. Not knowing ANY of their migration history before I began my research–but suspecting the families to be of modest means–I was expecting much more of this … [...]

Together at Niagara Mohawk Power

These family men all worked at the  predecessor companies that became Niagara Mohawk Power …. Percy BROADHURST 1930 US Census. Six years later the family rented 328 North Genesee St, Utica, NY for $25 a month. Percy was a “Supervisor Heat” for the Utica Gas and Electric Company. He worked for Niagara Mohawk Power Company [...]

Violet Broadhurst Davis Obituary

1930 US Census – W. Broadhurst and W. Davis families

William Davis, 42 Violet Davis, 36 Evelyn Davis, 12 William Broadhurst, 32 Emily Broadhurst, 30 Lawrence Broadhurst, 6