Ada Blacklaw

Mrs Ada H. Blacklaw was listed at No. 7 St Bernard’s Row in the electoral registers of 1933 and 1934.¹ She was at 37 Broughton Place 1929-1930.² Her husband was not in the Edinburgh electoral register but both she and her husband were listed in the Glasgow 1933 electoral register at 98 Northinch Street.³

Robert Blacklaw married Ada Seywright in Glasgow on 15 November 1929.⁴ He was a riveter, working in Glasgow’s shipyards and in 1938 suffered injuries to his back and legs in an accident at the Clydeholm yard of Barclay, Curle & Co.⁵ They divorced in 1953.⁶

Ada Seywright was born in 1911 at Partick, Glasgow,⁷ daughter of William Seywright, also a riveter, and Martha Riddell. She was a baker’s shop assistant when she married.⁸ She died in Glasgow in 1969.⁹

1. Electoral registers 1933 and 1934.
2. Electoral Registers 1929 and 1930.
3. Glasgow Electoral Register 1933.
4. Marriages (SR) Scotland. Scotstoun, Glasgow. 16 November 1929. BLACKLAW, Robert and SEYWRIGHT, Ada. 644/23 172. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 10 February 2024.
5. ‘Four Men Hurt.’ Dundee Evening Telegraph. 13 May 1938. p. 8, col. 3. https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk: accessed 10 February 2024.
6. Marriages (SR) Scotland. Glasgow. 28 July 1953. BLACKLAW, Robert and SEYWRIGHT, Ada. 644/14 006 181 (RCE). https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 10 February 2024.
7. Births index (SR) Scotland. Partick, Glasgow. 1911. SEYWRIGHT, Ada. 646/3 1696. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 10 February 2024.
8. Marriages (SR) Scotland. Scotstoun, Glasgow. 16 November 1929. BLACKLAW, Robert and SEYWRIGHT, Ada. 644/23 172. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 10 February 2024.
9. Deaths index (SR) Scotland. Glasgow. 1969. BLACKLAW, Ada. 644/5 376. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 10 February 2024.