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The John and Frances Broadhurst Home c1842 Tithe Maps

By Richard on October 15, 2009 • ( 3 Comments )

An excellent resource for finding where our ancestors lived “once upon a time” is this website: e-mapping Victorian Cheshire: Cheshire’s Tithe Maps Online. In 1842 John and Frances BROADHURST lived in Hale, Cheshire. John […]

A Broadhurst Wittenbeck 1936 wedding

By Richard on October 7, 2009 • ( Leave a comment )

While sifting through old family photos with my cousin Kay, we came across this unidentified wedding group. Neither of us recognized what was probably members of our family. It turns out they are…. The […]

A Family Photo Album – Peter Ernest and Elizabeth Aspin Broadhurst

By Richard on October 4, 2009 • ( Leave a comment )

Aloha cousins, My wife and I visited my cousin Kay Salkind Schwartz and her husband Barry in late September. Kay and I are grandchildren of Peter and Elizabeth. Their daughter Amy is […]

Peter Ernest BROADHURST and Elizabeth ASPIN

By Richard on October 3, 2009 • ( Leave a comment )

(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 […]

Accident or Suicide? The gassy death of Peter Ernest Broadhurst

By Richard on August 23, 2009 • ( Leave a comment )

My paternal Grandfather, Peter Ernest Broadhurst was found dead by a coworker when he didn’t show up to work one morning. His wife, my Grandmother, Elizabeth Aspin Broadhurst was not there at […]

Broadhurst Sisters in Hemstead Long Island with Elsie Schletter

By Richard on June 18, 2009 • ( Leave a comment )

So who is that lady on the right, does anyone recognize her? Elsie (l) is my maternal Grandmother and Elizabeth (c) my paternal. The lady on the right is only known as […]

Lillian Had a Knife – A One Way Trip To a Psychiatric Hospital

By Richard on June 16, 2009 • ( 1 Comment )

While researching your family tree have you found any “forgotten” relatives tucked away in insane asylums? I found one. My maternal Great Aunt, Lillian Schletter. According to family lore, Lillian “went after her brother […]

The descendants of Richard BROADHURST and Sarah Ann JONES

By Richard on June 13, 2009 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

Elizabeth and Robert T Broadhurst aboard the SS Baltic and SS Britannic

By Richard on June 12, 2009

One of the many unexpected things I discovered when starting genealogical research of these families was the large number of trips taken back and forth across the Atlantic. Not knowing ANY of […]

Four Broadhurst Girls Marry Four Howarth Boys

By Richard on June 10, 2009 • ( 2 Comments )

It’s not uncommon for families to marry into other families more than once. Is this four times? The Nellie Broadhurst listed in the chart is one of “The Eleven” and I wonder […]

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