Herbal Brewers

As a matter of course I went onto Ancestry to look at my great grandfather's family and saw a family tree of the Needham family of Chadderton Oldham, so being nosey had a look as to what connection they were to our Broome family.
I noticed they had got my great grandfather Samuel's birthplace down wrongly as Chesterfield in Derbyshire, which they had presumed from the 1881 Census that because the family lived there then, he was born there. So I thought this will have to be corrected so I wrote to the tree owner and told them he was born in Tyldesley, Lancashire and introduced myself and the Broome's.
The lady emailed back, her connection to the Broome's is through her great grandmother who's brother married Sarah Broome, the sister of my great, great grandfather Samuel Broome. It turns out that Sarah married Henry Hurdus in Oldham, and they lived there and became brewers of the finest sarsparella and ginger beer in Lancashire and the family were still manufacturing it well into the 1960's.
It's a co incidence that my nanna used to buy this sarsparella, sold in stone bottles, whenever the cart came around, and said it was the best ever. I will doubt whether she knew that the Hurdus family were related, i think she would have mentioned it had she knew.
It's good also to find a descendant of this family and to be able to communicate and learn more about our history.