At 07:31 PM 9/21/98 -0400, you wrote: <snip> >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.... > My husband's Broadhurst ancestors probably came out of VA (very little info. there), to Cocke Co., TN, and ended up in Ray and Clay Cos. in Missouri. My husband's elderly aunt in Missouri also says the name like it were spelled "Broadus." Apparently that group kept the more "slurred" pronunciation. (Most noticeable when she is speaking of the plural form: Broad-us-es, instead of Broad-hursts.) So I think it is a possibility that at some point they were the same group. Maybe someday we'll find out. Judy mailto:[email protected]