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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.

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.

The Benevolent Order of Buffaloes, Lowell Herd Number 10

Were any of your relatives buffaloes? No, not the big furry four-legged kind but the two-legged members of the the Benevolent Order of Buffaloes? This was a fraternal organization started in 1881 and by the early 1900s was extinct. By the the 1910s at least there were more lodges or “Herds” as they were called. [...]