Dear John,
You are not supposed to enthuse about the value of geneology in mining history research on this list!
None of the people you list (Keighley, Knowles, Tetley etc) appear to have been active in the several limited liability companies which held mines in the Greenhow Hill area of the Yorkshire Dales. Many of their shareholders came from the industrial towns of the old West Riding.
The was an active mining share market, based on the Leeds Stock Exchange, and 'Leeds' companies had interests well outside Yorkshire. The same is true for industrial Lancashire. The players were not exclusively of the landed and professional groups. Many of them, who often held a porfolio of small numbers of shares, were artisans.
Bearing in mind Roger Burt's talk at the Mining History and Beyond conference - is it possible that the Tetleys etc will show up in Masonic records? Bradford's Masonic Hall is on Manningham Lane.
Mike Gill
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