This is a challenge! With luck I may uncover something as I try to track down early Broadhursts and their interconnections. Thanks for that piece of information. "James M. Stone" <[email protected]> on 09/22/98 12:41:35 AM To: Art Broadhurst/HQ/UIMC cc: Subject: Re: Broaddus/Broadhurst Hi Art If you make a connection beween Broaddus or Broadus and Broadhurst, I would love to see it. I notice Ed Broadus (note one "d") who lives in Canada and is the most informed Broad(d)us hunter I have encountered also sent a note expressing interest in any European family members. The legend is that Edward's first wife, Dollwyddlen Gwynn landed with Edward on Gwynn's Island on the Virginia shore. It further says that the land of the island already belonged to Dolly's family of Gwynn and they were from Wales. Ifyou figure this one out, you get a real detectives's badge. Jim Stone At 07:31 PM 9/21/98 -0400, you wrote: >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 > > > >