William Kay Blacklock (1872-1924)

Born in Sunderland in 1872, second son of John Blacklock, engine fitter, and his wife Isabella née Blackett, who married at Sunderland in 1770. In 1881 an 8 year old living at 5 Hudson's Buildings, Bishop Wearmouth, Sunderland with his parent's, 39 year old John and 36 year old Isabella, and his two siblings, all born at Sunderland. His father died in 1886 and in 1891 young William was an 18 year old lithographer's apprentice living at 10 Corporation Road, Rickersgate, Carlisle where his widowed mother was a publican but they had moved by 1901 to 4 Dixon Street, still a lithographer and his mother a 'boarding house keeper'. He then studied at the School of Art in Edinburgh and the R...