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Edmund Keetley
was born in 1882 and his brother Harold
Percy Keetley
in 1885, both at Bakewell, Derbyshire, sons of gardener William Keetley
(1858-1949) and his wife Annie née Johnson
(1860-1948). By 1901 the two young men were working as pupil
teachers in Bakewell. The existence of a cabinet card with
commercially produced mount (see below) and several other photographic
prints suggests that William and Harold briefly operated a studio from
the family home at The Avenue, Bakewell in the mid-1900s.
However by 1912, when the Kelly's directory of that year was published,
Harold had moved to Smedley street, Matlock Bank, where he was a
sub-postmaster. There was no listing for the photographic
business in that year under Bakewell, although William may have moved
it elsewhere. William married Millicent Clare in 1910. Harold married his first wife Annie Emma Thurlow in 1909, but both she and their first child died a year later. He remarried in 1915, to Dorothy A. Crowe, and they had a son, Peter H. (b. 1918), and a daughter Diana M. (b. 1921). William and Harold Keetley also had a younger sister Alice Annie (born in 1889) who married Harry Nelson in 1911, and two other siblings who died young, Gladys Flora (b. & d. 1887) and Charles Herbert (1891-1899). Alice bought her parents' house in Bakewell in 1935. |
 The Keetleys' stationers & photographic shop,
Matlock Street, Bakewell
Image © & courtesy of Tim Ryan |
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(Left) Harold Keetley & his
wife outside 'Sunnyside' (now Holly House) The Avenue, Bakewell (Right)
Harold Keetley
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All images © & courtesy of Tim Ryan ----------------------------------- (Left) Annie Keetley (Right)
William & Annie Keetley
(Below)
Keetley Family Portrait
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Elizabeth
Johnson née Hill
(1824-1912) by W. & H. Keetley of The Avenue, Bakewell Undated, but probably taken c.1904-1908 Format: Cabinet Card Image © & courtesy of Tim Ryan Notes: This photograph was
among several in the house formerly occupied by William Keetley in
Bakewell. The subject was identified as "Annie Johnson's mother."
Annie Johnson was William & Harold Keetley's mother, and this
was therefore the photographers' maternal grandmother. She
was born Elizabeth Hill at Coleorton (Leicestershire) in 1824, daughter
of Thomas and Elizabeth, and married John Johnson at Coleorton in
1854. Her daughter Ann was born on 16 January 1860, their
third child, and married William Keetley at Derby on 14 March
1881. Elizabeth Johnson died at Bakewell in early 1912, aged
87. |
| References
Images and information kindly provided by Tim Ryan 1841-1901 UK Census - online from Ancestry.com FreeBMD International Genealogical Index - online from the LDS church The following trade directories have been accessed using the University of Leicester's online collection, Digital Library of Historical Directories: - Anon (1891) Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland & Nottinghamshire, Kelly & Co., London. - Anon (1895) Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, Kelly & Co. Limited, London. - Anon (1899) Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland & Nottinghamshire, Kelly & Co., London. - Anon (1912) Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire 1912, Kelly's Directories Ltd., London. Anon (1895) History, Topography, and Directory of Derbyshire, T. Bulmer & Co. - by kind courtesy of Sonia Addis-Smith Adamson, Keith I.P. (1997) Professional Photographers in Derbyshire 1843 - 1914, The PhotoHistorian, No. 118 Supplement, September 1997, ISSN 0957-0209. Courtesy of John Bradley. Craven, Maxwell (ed.) (1993) Keene's Derby, Breedon Books, Derby, pp. 200-202. - by kind courtesy of Sonia Addis-Smith |
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