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 [...]

updated 13 June 2009 From a farm in Cheshire to the Cotton Mills of Manchester across the Atlantic to the Mills of Dover, Lowell and Utica, and then even on to the Niagara – Mohawk Power Company, many in this eleven-sibling  family group really stuck together. They are the children of Richard BROADHURST and Sarah [...]

Just a reminder to the group … this is a great newspaper archive website for the various Broadhurst and related familes that had settled around Utica and other parts of New York http://www.fultonhistory.com/ It has a good search tool and the database contains many of the newspapers that covered the parts of the state our [...]

Thanks for stopping by. Broadhurst Families is a new website and blog dedicated to–and finding–the many families around the world related to John BROADHURST and Frances ADSHEAD. John and Frances, married in St. Mary’s Parish church in Stockport, Cheshire in 1839 had five children; Elisha, William, Sarah, Peter and my Great Grandfather, Richard. Our names [...]

These families; ADAMS, ASPIN, BAILEY, BRADBURY, BRADSHAW, BROADHURST, COLLINS, CROSSLEY, DAVIS, HOWARTH (alt HOWORTH) and WOODWARD were a close knit group. Each is related to one of the eleven children of Richard BROADHURST and Sarah Ann JONES. Their families worked in the cotton mills in and around Manchester together; they emigrated from England to the [...]

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 [...]