shphotos Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 Where can i go to find records of a business that started and was sold by the original family YEARS before i was born? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nanrobbo Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 If by any chance they were the Keetons of Woodhouse that may be a good place to start. There are a couple of books about Woodhouse which I believe are still available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shphotos Posted June 7, 2011 Author Share Posted June 7, 2011 not quite sure about woodhouse. They lived in darnall when my great gran was little. As far as i know it was a grocery and hardware store in the beginning. And my great grans brothers were robert eades keeton and charles keeton. Last i heard before my gran lost the plot and couldn't recall her history anymore was that charles ran off with the money from the sale or something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oumyasser Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 hi i'm not sure if u r looking for keetons and son they r based in darnall they do caravans renting they r in acress hill road just after the bridge. i hope that's help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retep Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 1948 Charles Keeton, trading as Keeton & Sons & Co. Limited Royds lane 4 1963 Keeton & Sons & Co Limited -Trading as Keetona, Keetona Works Greenland Road 9 1973 Chas. Keeton, 6 Hallgate Road 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shphotos Posted June 7, 2011 Author Share Posted June 7, 2011 hi i'm not sure if u r looking for keetons and son they r based in darnall they do caravans renting they r in acress hill road just after the bridge. i hope that's help thank you. i am not sure what it ended up as, as the story goes. It was originally a grocers/hardware store (how that works i will never know but it was in the olden days so i guess anything goes back then lol) It was sold by charles keeton who ran off with the money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shphotos Posted June 7, 2011 Author Share Posted June 7, 2011 1948 Charles Keeton, trading as Keeton & Sons & Co. Limited Royds lane 4 1963 Keeton & Sons & Co Limited -Trading as Keetona, Keetona Works Greenland Road 9 1973 Chas. Keeton, 6 Hallgate Road 10 This might be the one i am looking for. Do you know what the store originally was trading as? I know keetona is a steel associated business and the 1901 census has Paul (the father) as a clerk for a steel works. And his son Charles down as an electrical engineer. So it might make sense that they sold it to a company who wanted to carry on with steel associated business. And with the store allegedly (through family discussion of history) being a grocers/hardware store then it would seem like a logical progression as time went by Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retep Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 This might be the one i am looking for. Do you know what the store originally was trading as? I know keetona is a steel associated business and the 1901 census has Paul (the father) as a clerk for a steel works. And his son Charles down as an electrical engineer. So it might make sense that they sold it to a company who wanted to carry on with steel associated business. And with the store allegedly (through family discussion of history) being a grocers/hardware store then it would seem like a logical progression as time went by 1925 Dir. has Keeton & Sons & Co Ltd, general engineers, Reg. Offices, Royds foundry & engineering wks. Royds Lane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shphotos Posted June 7, 2011 Author Share Posted June 7, 2011 thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victormh Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 There was a family firm by the name of H Keeton and Sons in Woodhouse. They provided taxis, wedding cars, funeral cars etc., and were the local undertakers. They garaged all their cars in a large area behind the shops on Market Place, there was an alley to drive down between the Meadow Dairies shop and the end shop of the next block which was Winifred Camden who sold hats and other items of milinery Keetons moved a short distance to Orgreave Lane around 1978/79 and the business was aken over by the son, Raymond. They also had their Chapel of Rest at the Orgreave Lane premises. Over the past years the business was sold by Raymond to one of the big funeral companies. Hope this helps you Regards - Grey Eminence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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