Thanks for your helpful info. It may be out of our reach, but I am eager to try to trace the separate Broadhurst-Broadus lines back far enough to see if there a common origin. That could turn out to be futile either because tracing the lineages is just too difficult, or because there isn't a common origin but merely a similar origin of the names. It seems apparent now that whatever common origin may exist is to be found in England if at all. Since I grew up in Virginia, although my parents were from New England, when I ran into the occasional Broadus I had assumed it was a dialectical shortening of Broadhurst--my Virginia friends always said "Broadus" when they said my name, so lacking other information that seemed a reasonable possibility.... Art Broadhurst, Vero Beach, Florida