Re: broomhead & supernaught of upstate new york
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Re: broomhead & supernaught of upstate new york
Edward Fox 8/16/02
"My" Alfred died 31 March 1923 and is buried in Cohoes NY. In the 1900 census his listing says he immigrated in 1863and I have found him annually in the Cohoes city directory 1870-1904 except for 1883-9 when he moved to Vermont where his childen were born. According to his granddaughter he came from "Lancashire", and moving to the clothing mills of Cohoes (where he and his siblings worked) makes sense. Though I have not found him yet in either the 1870 or 1880 census, he is in Cohoes in the 1875 New York State census, age 24. That places his birth almost a generation after "your" Thomas and the limited documentation I do have pretty much distinguishes the two men.
From his death certificate, his parents were Joseph and Mary Broomhead (ingenious naming scheme here, too), and Mary died in Cohoes in 1901. I have assumed that the death or divorce of Joseph spurred her to emigrate with 7 children (Frances, Emma, Sarah, William, James, Thomas, Alfred). I have been unsuccessful in identifying birth of any of these children in England, though I stumbled across the marriage of a Joseph Broomhead and Mary Brown in 1833 in Manchester.