South Yorkshire Times, February 17th 1951
Adwick-on-Dearne Cottage is 500 Years Old
In a quaint four-roomed cottage at Adwick-on-Dearne live Mr. and Mrs. R. Keeling, their daughter and son-in-law and grandson, Mr. and Mrs. T. Linam and four-years-old Norman.
This cottage is one of the oldest in Adwick-on-Dearne, and was built about 500 years ago by a Mr. Warrington. The wood was cut and carted from Melton Woods and the stone from the former Farm Lane Quarry, near Mex-borough. At one time the cottage had only three rooms, but a pantry-cum-kitchen was built by the N.C.B., to whom the land on which the cottage is built now belongs.
Although there is now electricity, in the dwelling, it was once illuminated by oil lamps.
After the Warringtons came the Fosters and then the, Arundels (a well – known Adwick-on-Dearne family, and Mrs. Keeling’s grandparents). They were followed by Mr. and Mrs. George Frederick Arundel, parents of Mrs. Keeling and on their death the cottage became Mrs. Keeling’s and she lips lived in it for 62 years.
Mrs. Keeling has possession of an ancient document dated 1856. It is more or less a receipt (on parchment) for prize money received by a great-grandmother of Mrs. Keeling, a Mrs. Hannah Arundel. Mrs. Arundel’s son was a seaman in the “Royal Albert and was killed in action, but was awarded prize money of £3 10s 7d for the capture of a vessel.