Gertrude BROADHURST was born 1887 in Leigh, Lancashire, England. She is the fifth of eleven siblings to Richard BROADHURST and Sarah Ann JONES. On 09 Nov 1907, 20 year old Gertrude married Arthur ADAMS (b 05 Mar 1887, Manchester, Lancashire) in St Matthew Church in Blackburn, Lancashire. Gertrude and Arthur had four children: Jessie (b [...]

Sarah BROADHURST was born on 03 May 1881 in Leigh, Lancashire and baptized on 07Jan 1882 in Newchurch, Lancashire. Sarah is the third child of eleven of Richard BROADHURST and Sarah Ann JONES. She married James WOODWARD, born about 1878 in Blackburn, in 1900 at St. James in Haslingden. Sarah and James had two children: [...]

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 [...]

(click here to see a map of the places noted below) John Broadhurst, the son of William and Mary Broadhurst, was born in Chelford, Cheshire in 1812. He was born Monday 27 January and christened on Sunday 23 February. Sometime before 1839 he moved about 8 miles northeast to the village of Bramhall where he farmed (according to [...]