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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. |
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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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