Post by Admin on Jul 23, 2008 10:02:55 GMT
I have recently been offered a picture of a farmhouse in Keighley from a museum in the U.S. I was sent an initial scan which sent me looking everywhere I could to discover more about it. CLICK on URL to see the Farm.
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I found a living relative in the States, who was not sure of the farm position in this area, but when he gets back home he will then be in a position to give us more information. He is still working away.
This is what we discovered >>>>>>
WILSON HEY
Wilson Hey was born August 24, 1836, at his father’s farm, “Crossfarm,” near Keighley, West Yorkshire, England. He was baptized on February 17, 1837, at Lower Town Wesleyan, Haworth. Wilson was the son of James Hey, a pig butcher.
His siblings were John Hey and Ann Hey Sunderland. Their mother, Catherine (Kate) Ryan Hey, came from Ireland.
According to Wilson’s daughter, Nettie: “The Ryans had two daughters, one was beautiful and one was homely. Kate our grandmother was the homely one, but no doubt was the most commendable.”
Just across the valley from the Hey farm was the Anglican church at Haworth, where the Bronte sisters wrote their novels while their father, Patrick, served as clergyman.
As a young boy, Wilson was drawn to the church by the sound of the bells.
When he was six, Wilson was sent to work in a worsted factory. He stayed with that job until age eleven, when he was bound over as an apprentice to a tailor in Keighley.
As a teenager, Wilson dreamed of going to America. He ran away from home and got a job on a ship. According to family tradition, he landed in New York on his eighteenth birthday in 1854 with a friend from England, and together they had only fifty cents in their pockets.
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I then decided to do a check around the area, there were a number of farms which fit the description BUT a bit of detective work and we now think we have the farm which is Cross Farm at Oakworth. you can even see the row of houses in the background, so I intend to get a modern picture matching the original one, which should prove once and for all this is the correct place.
IF ANYONE can help me on the farmhouse or the Hey family or other people who have live in the farmhouse, I would love any information, in order to pass it along to the ancestor and also for my own information.
Thanks all.
i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh91/janbronte/sc00051501_3.jpg
I found a living relative in the States, who was not sure of the farm position in this area, but when he gets back home he will then be in a position to give us more information. He is still working away.
This is what we discovered >>>>>>
WILSON HEY
Wilson Hey was born August 24, 1836, at his father’s farm, “Crossfarm,” near Keighley, West Yorkshire, England. He was baptized on February 17, 1837, at Lower Town Wesleyan, Haworth. Wilson was the son of James Hey, a pig butcher.
His siblings were John Hey and Ann Hey Sunderland. Their mother, Catherine (Kate) Ryan Hey, came from Ireland.
According to Wilson’s daughter, Nettie: “The Ryans had two daughters, one was beautiful and one was homely. Kate our grandmother was the homely one, but no doubt was the most commendable.”
Just across the valley from the Hey farm was the Anglican church at Haworth, where the Bronte sisters wrote their novels while their father, Patrick, served as clergyman.
As a young boy, Wilson was drawn to the church by the sound of the bells.
When he was six, Wilson was sent to work in a worsted factory. He stayed with that job until age eleven, when he was bound over as an apprentice to a tailor in Keighley.
As a teenager, Wilson dreamed of going to America. He ran away from home and got a job on a ship. According to family tradition, he landed in New York on his eighteenth birthday in 1854 with a friend from England, and together they had only fifty cents in their pockets.
>>>>
I then decided to do a check around the area, there were a number of farms which fit the description BUT a bit of detective work and we now think we have the farm which is Cross Farm at Oakworth. you can even see the row of houses in the background, so I intend to get a modern picture matching the original one, which should prove once and for all this is the correct place.
IF ANYONE can help me on the farmhouse or the Hey family or other people who have live in the farmhouse, I would love any information, in order to pass it along to the ancestor and also for my own information.
Thanks all.
