Andrew Kedslie (jnr born in Poland)
Andrew was the eldest son of Alexander and Catherine and was born in Poland on the 31st August; baptised on the 28th September 1812. Also see the entry for his father where there is a photo of their shared grave. He died 8th July 1858 (?).
Mona K. McLeod gives a useful account of the input of Scots in industrial development at the time. She notes John Douglas as from a family from the Borders and being the manager of a papermill for Prince Czartorski at Celejow. It is unsurprising that Andrew Kedslie got together with John. Perhaps inspiring them are the details carefully recorded in his cousin (?) Alexander Kedslie's notebook of such things as the dimensions of the chaff-cutting, washing and heating machines at the papermill, and of the waterwheel which powered them. By the time of the Rising the two partners owned the mill and in 1834 the set up their own engineering factory in Lublin and supported by Bank Polski. They had to organised, within a year, a factory for the production of agricultural machinery and tools and had to keep it going for ten years. The bank provided the credit and mining firms the materials. Douglas and Kedslie were reputed to be excellent engineers, but poor businessmen. When the factory closed in 1839 they were producing good machines and had full order books but no money with which to pay the workers. That factory may have closed down, but this modern, SIPMA, one sees itself as inheriting that foundation which they laid. [In her book, McLeod refers to Alexander as a cousin of Andrew's, but in her private notes there is a "?" I think these notes were by his brother].
This website about the SIPMA company gives the following history :
The tradition of the Lublin agricultural machinery and equipment industry dates back to the first half of the 19th century, [Another web source says 1835 as SIPMA] when two Scots - John Douglas and Andrew Kedslie - created the first factory producing young people and cachers, creating the foundations for future such investments. Many years later, at the end of the 19th century, Mieczysław Saryusz Wolski (Machin Factory and Iron Foundry) and Wenceslas Moritz (Młocarni Factory and Wenceslas Moritz Cast Iron Foundry) also opened their factories, which after World War II are under state supervision, giving rise to the Lublin Agricultural Machinery Factory.
SIPMA S.A. in its current form starts its business on January 1, 1990, continuing with pride more than 170 years of tradition of Lublin agricultural machinery manufacturers.
https://www.sipma.pl/o-firmie/historia-firmy/ (Google Translate !!)
