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 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.
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Sarah Ann Jones Broadhurst Obituary

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.

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Richard BROADHURST and Sarah Ann JONES

Richard BROADHURST was born in 1855 in Hale, Cheshire. On 19 June 1876, at about 21 years old, Richard Broadhurst married 15 year old Sarah Ann Jones (b.1861 Wilmslow) at St. Mary’s in Bowdon, Cheshire, a village just west of Hale and 1 mile south of Altrincham. Richard and Sarah Ann had eleven known children:

Frances [...]