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.

Richard BROADHURST and Sarah Ann JONES

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 [...]

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.