Keenley - Circa 1920
Hunter Oak, Keenley. A likely 17/18th century farmhouse but with an older bastle structure existing in nearby buildings and within a field wall.
Hunter Oak, Keenley. A likely 17/18th century farmhouse but with an older bastle structure existing in nearby buildings and within a field wall.
Hannah Shield (1822 – 1904). Wife of Abraham Shield who farmed at Burnlaw, Keenley. The Shields were Quakers who farmed there from at least the 1750s to the middle of the 20th century.
Ebenezer George Wilson Small (b.1864). Born, and orphaned at a young age, in Port Louis, Mauritius he grew up in Allendale from at least the 1870s as the adopted child of Abraham and Hannah Shield. As a Quaker, Ebenezer subsequently travelled as a young man to New Zealand.
Group – showing Shields and Wighams. (back) Jane Shield (1864-1936), John Hall Shield (1857-1950), AH (front) Sarah Watson Wigham (1848-1916), Ebenezer George Wilson Small (b.1864), Elizabeth Shield (1860-1958)
The Hudspith family Back – John (1845-1925) Front – Margaret Elizabeth (1878-1928, later Temperley), Alice Mary (1881-1960), Margaret (1857-1909), Thomas Henry (1886-1975)
Keenley Wesleyan Chapel has managed to survive – still in use in 2001. Built in 1750 after John Wesley’s visit to Keenley, it was later rebuilt in 1875.
Keenleyside Hill, Keenley. The child at the door is Robert Lowdon (1908-1966) who was born there and lived at Keenleyside Hill with his parents Robert (b.1871) and Edith (née Laidler, b.1874) and sister Agnes.
Female relations at Burnlaw, Keenley. Rear: Elizabeth Shield (1860-1958), Janet Shield (née Harkness, 1859-1928); Front: Eliza Shield (1854-1933), Ann Eliza Harkness (b.1868), Jane Shield (1864-1936) Elizabeth and Jane were the daughters of Abraham Shield of Burnlaw (1809-1888) and Janet Harness married their brother, Joseph Shield. Ann Eliza Harkness was her younger sister.
Workers at Crockton bridge, Keenley. This bridge is situated near Burntongues on the Thornley Gate – Whitfield road. The old bridge used to have a much steeper approach on either side until this work raised a new bridge significantly to the general level of the road on either side.
The Pickering family, grandchildren of Abraham and Hannah Shield of Burnlaw, Keenley. L-R Elizabeth (1899-1984), Hugh (1903-1993), Hannah (1894-1966), Alice (Elsie, 1891-1981) , (Joseph) John (1896-1971), Marian (1892-1973)
The Range at Low Howe, Leadgate,West Allen. Shop destroyed by fire in 1765 – John Clark
BR – Dora Ridley, John French (1848-1900), Hannah Ridley FR – John Ridley, Janet Shield (1859-1928), Fred Ridley, Dora French (John’s daughter, 1881-1963). Janet Shield holding her daughter Ethel Shield (1893-1983).
Janet Shield (née Harkness, 1859-1928). Jane, her husband Joseph and their daughters lived at Westside, Keenley.
Haymaking at Burnlaw, Keenley. L-R. Ethel Shield (1893-1983), Dora Shield (her sister, 1897-1933), John Hall Shield (their uncle, 1857-1946), Hugh Pickering (their first cousin, 1903-1993), Joseph Shield (their father, 1859-1950).
(Back row) Margaret Wigham (Front row) Thomas Wigham (1840-1917), Hannah Shield (1822-1904), Ethel Shield (1893-1983 – granddaughter of Hannah)