Photos courtesy of their great grandson, Bill Hoke. Click on thumbnails to view larger images. Richard BROADHURST was born in 1855 in Hale, Cheshire. He is the son of John and Frances Adshead BROADHURST.  On 19 June 1876, at about 21 years old, Richard Broadhurst married 15 year old Sarah Ann Jones (b.1861 Wilmslow) at [...]

(post updated 14 May 2010 to include photo) Percy BROADHURST was born on 22 January 1895 in Heywood, Lancashire, England. Percy was the tenth child of Richard Broadhurst and Sarah Ann JONES. On 20 December 1920, Percy married Edith Annie BRADBURY, born on 22 October 1899. (BRADBURY was her mother’s name later in life, it’s [...]

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 [...]

(updated post to include family photo and correct Robert T’s age) Peter Ernest BROADHURST was born on 19 Feb 1889 in Little Town Wardle, Rochdale, Lancashire. He was the 7th child of Richard BROADHURST and Sarah Ann JONES. 19 year old Peter married 18 year old Elizabeth ASPIN on 12 Dec 1908 in St. Barnabas [...]

Edmund T. Schletter was born on Friday, 18 July 1851 in the Kingdom State of Saxony, Germany. He may have been the son of Carl and Christiana SCHLETTER. About 1877, when he was 25, he married Wilhelmina “Minna” LUKE(?) (c 1855, in Bergeborbeck, an area of Essen, Germany) in Saxony. She was about 22. Edmund [...]

Harold BROADHURST is the first son of John Richard BROADHURST and Edith Mary BAILEY and was born 06 February 1908 in Manchester, England. He first came to the US as an infant aboard the S.S. Canada sailing from Liverpool, England on 03 March 1910 and arriving 10 days later in Portland, Maine on 12 March [...]

Jane Ann BROADHURST. Jane Ann was born in 1879 in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England. She is the second child of eleven born to Richard and Sarah Ann BROADHURST. She appears in the 1891 and 1901 England censuses and in 1901 is a ring spinner in a cotton mill. Perhaps after the census in 1901 she married [...]

William Arthur BROADHURST was the last of eleven children of Richard BROADHURST and Sarah Ann JONES. He was born 15 April 1897 in Blackburn, Lancashire. He married Emily READ in 1920 at St. Andrew in Blackburn. They had one child: Lawrence (b 27 Jul 1923, d  24 Jan 1991) 1901 Census. William, “Willie” as he [...]

Nellie BROADHURST was born was born 1891 in Shaw, Lancashire, England. She was the eighth child of eleven born to Richard BROADHURST and Sarah Ann JONES. Nellie (21) married William Thomas HOWORTH (b abt 1890, Clitheroe, Lancashire) in 1912 at St. Thomas in Blackburn. The couple had one child: May (b 1914) 1891 England Census. [...]