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Surname: Keightley
First Name: Stewart
Ship: -
Date: 1888
Place: Newcastle
Source: The Aldine centennial history of New South Wales illustrated / W. Frederic Morrison Morrison, W. Frederic Sydney. The Aldine Publishing Company, 1888
Details: STEWART KEIGHTLEY, J.P., was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1847. In 1862 he went into the employ of the Hobson s Bay Railway Company, Melbourne, and continued with them in various capacities for fifteen years. He was then induced by his business associates to come to Newcastle to take charge of the Newcastle Coal Company in 1877, and as it was registered in that year he has been its manager from the first. The company, which has been very successful, finds employment for about 450 hands, its yearly output of coal being about 200,000 tons. The colliery has the most improved machinery, and possesses a private line of railway to the pits of over two and a half miles. In 1883 Mr. Keightley was made a Justice of the Peace. He has always been known as a popular and enterprising citizen, and has for years sat as alderman of the city of Newcastle, of which he once occupied the position of Mayor
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Surname: Keightley (obit)
First Name: Stewart
Ship: -
Date: 9 January 1907
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald
Details: Mr Stewart Keightley, for 30 years manager of the Newcastle Coal-mining Company and a highly respected, public-spirited citizen, died yesterday at his residence, Terrace-street, Newcastle aged 59 years. All flags on public buildings were lowered to half-mast in the afternoon. The deceased gentleman had been confined to his bed for a week past, but the end was rather unexpected, the cause of death being cerebral haemorrhage. Mr. Keightley s death will be felt as a great loss to the city where, during the fulfilment of many public duties, he has gained a wide circle of friends. The loss to the colliery proprietors with be a severe one, as he was one of the strong men in all deliberations regarding the industrial situation on the coal fields. Mr. Keightley was a prominent member of the memorable conference with the miners in September, when his tact and perspicuity were largely instrumental in warding off an industrial crisis. The deceased gentleman was first elected alderman for the City Ward in 1881, and he occupied the mayoral chair in 1884, retiring in 1885. He was appointed Vice-Consul for the United States in 1893, and from that year until 1896 had sole charge of the Consulate at Newcastle. In 1897 he was appointed the United States Vice and Deputy Consul. During his whole connection with the Consulate he had the entire confidence of the United States Government, who valued his commercial reports. He also held the Vice and Deputy Consulship for Cuba. The deceased was a charter member of the City Club, and the former president of the Chamber of Commerce. For many years prior to his decease he was director in the Newcastle Permanent Investment and Building Company. The late Mr. Keightley leaves a widow, two sons, and four daughters. Mr. Keightley was born in the North of Ireland in 1847. His father was an Irishman descended from an old English family, to which Keightley the actor and Keightley the historian belonged. When only eight years of age young Keightley, the only child, sailed from Ireland with his parents in the American ship Connecticut, and arrived in Sydney, where his family remained for some time, after which they went to Melbourne. When about 16 years of age Stewart Keightley entered the service of the Melbourne and Hobsons Bay Railway Company, remaining there for about 16 years, during which, through his industry and ability, he attained to high office. About this time the Newcastle Coal-mining Company was formed in Melbourne to work certain leases secured near Newcastle, and Mr. Keightley, then in his thirty-second year, was appointed manager of Newcastle. He assumed control over the mines, and acted as manager up to the time of his death. Mr. Jas. Curley, secretary of the Colliery Employees Federation, referring to the decease of Mr. Keightley yesterday afternoon, said they had been friends for a large number of years. Although a strenuous fighter for his company, Mr. Keightley was a man of unchallenged honesty and probity. No matter how hard he fought during arbitration, he never retained any sign of animosity outside. At their last conference, a little more than a week ago, in connection with the Glebe miners, Mr. Keightley observed that they had engaged in many a good battle, but their friendly relations were never interrupted. During the whole of his term as manager, concluded Mr. Curley, he rarely had a dispute with his workmen which led to a stoppage of the mines, and generally managed to work his collieries without stoppage