Upper Scholes (now called Higher Scholes) where John Butterfield
and his wife Mary (nee Sharp) were living in 1761.
Upper Scholes is situated near Oldfield, Oakworth, Keighley, across
the valley from Stanbury and near the Grouse Inn.
By 1781 John and Mary Butterfield were living at Lower Holme House,
near Goose Eye, Laycock, Keighley.
It was here that their son John was born in that year. He was
baptised at Keighley Parish Church and the entry in the register reads:
John son of John Butterfield, Lower Holme House and his wife Mary
daughter of Benjamin Sharp.
My Great-Grandfather, Matthew Nicholson and his wife Alice. Standing
behind is my
Grandmother, Emma, who was to marry Spencer Butterfield. Matthew was
baptised
by Patrick Bronte, father of the Bronte sisters, in 1827 at Haworth.
This is a photograph of Matthew Nicholson, aged about 80, outside his
tiny cottage at
No. 9, The Green, Eldwick, Bingley. He died in 1910 at the age of 83.
Matthew's cottage as it was in 1980. It as since been demolished and a
new house built in its place.
This is the only known photograph I have of my
Grandfather, Spencer Butterfield, taken about
1910 outside Dick Hudson's, High Eldwick.
See below.
The Public House is named after a former landlord. The actual name is
The Fleece.
My Grandmother, Emma, wife of Spencer Butterfield and
daughter of Matthew and Alice Nicholson.
Doris Mary Hullah (my mother) and John Butterfield (my father)
The Wedding of my parents John
Butterfield and Doris Mary Hullah in 1920
From left to right back: Old Mrs. Eichel, Tom Hullah (brother of
Doris), Mrs. Eichel, Willie Butterfield (John's brother).
Front: Fred Butterfield (John's brother), Ada Butterfield (nee
Waddington, Fred's wife), John Butterfield (bridegroom),
Doris Mary Butterfield (bride), Mirriam Hullah (wife of Ted Hullah,
brother of Doris). Young girl at the front is
Phyllis Eichel.
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