John Adamson wire worker¹

Parents:

• Birth*: John Adamson wire worker was born after 31 March 1901 at Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland, .¹
• He was the son of James Harkins Adamson wireworker and Margaret C Inglis jute weaver.¹
• Marriage*: John Adamson wire worker married Eva Gatherum, daughter of John Gatherum, in 1940 at St Mary & St Peter, Dundee, Angus, Scotland, .²
• Death*: John Adamson wire worker died on 12 August 1951 at 7 Glamis Place, Dundee, Angus, Scotland, ; 1951 deaths in the district of St Mary & St Peter in the burgh of Dundee, ref 180; John Adamson wire worker master married to Eva Gatherum, 19511 August Twelfth 1h 15m pm 7 Glamis Place Dundee, male aged 49 years, parents James Harkins Adamson wire worker master (dec) and Margaret Cumminck Adamson ms Inglis (dec), coronary thrombosis angina pectoris 5 years as cert by J G Ferguson MBChB, signed John Gatherum father-in-law 12 Scoonie Terrace Leven, registered 1951 August 13th at Dundee C W Baxter interim registrar.¹
• Obituary: The obituary of John Adamson wire worker was was published on 13 August 1951. John Adamson 13th August 1951
  Death of Dundee Business man
  Mr John Adamson 7 Glamis Place, Dundee head of William Adamson & Son (Wire and Sheet metal Fabrications) ltd died suddenly yesterday.
  His firm expanded its activities greatly with the opening of a new factory at Arbroath Road two years ago.
  He was 49, and although not enjoying good health for some time, had been at business in past week.
  Mr Adamson was the third generation of the firm started by his grand father in 1870 in a shop at 49 Nethergate.
  He remained there until the beginning of the last war, when Mr John Adamson removed to Seabraes Mill and later to Blinshall Street.
  I n May 1949, the firm moved into a new 12,00 0 square feet ground level factory in Arbroath Road, east of the Eastern Cemetery.
  The new riverside works was privately built and an important addition to Dundee’s industrial enterprises. Among the products of the new factory are all types of wire work, guards, enclosures for lifts, tennis courts zoos etc. and sheet metal manufacture such as steel cabinets, furniture and lockers, ships ventilation ducts etc.
  He was a member of Dundee Rotary Club, the Bonnetmaker Incorporation and had been connected with the Corinthian Boating Club for many years.
  He is survived by Mrs Adamson, and three sons, the eldest of whom is 11.³

• (Deceased) Death: Eva Gatherum died in 2010 at Dundee, Angus, Scotland, .^4,5