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.
Using Google Images and "Andrew Kedslie", I found this Wiki entry which I translated from the Polish using Google Translate. :
The Protestant cemetery in Wiskitki at 73 Armii Krajowej Street – was founded at the beginning of the 19th century and is a closed cemetery. It has an area of about 0.8 hectares and is currently neglected and devastated, only a dozen or so tombstones have survived.
The cemetery was probably established shortly after the establishment of the Evangelical - Augsburg parish in Wiskitki in 1805.Although officially it was a Lutheran cemetery, the preserved tombstones indicate the burials of people of the Calvinist (Evangelical Reformed faith) from Scotland. The tombstone inscriptions are mostly in Polish, which indicates the rapid Polonization of German settlers and others in Wiskitki. The cemetery has not been recognized as a historic building.
After the last war, it was abandoned, then devastated and plundered. In 2011, only a dozen or so tombstones were found:
- Fryderyk Domke died on 4.11.1888 at the age of 66
- Karl Eckstein, born in Piotrków on 12.08.1861, died on 1.11.1878 in Wiskitki
- Albertyna Bunclerowa née Sztejny, born in Rawa on 17.12.1846, died in 1913
- Joseph Robert Govenlock b. 4.07.1874, d. 09.08.1886
- Jakub Hay died 18.05.1879 at the age of 59
- Antoni Hellweger died on 19.02.1877 at the age of 47
- Ryszard Hellweger died on 21.09.1876 at the age of 6 ?
- Paulina Hellweger died on 15.10.1877 at the age of 3
- Alexander Kedslie, born in Edinburgh on 28.02.1789, died in Zyrardow on 9.10.1873
- Andrew Kedslie his son, born 31.08.1819 died 6.07.1858
- A. Lause, born 23.09.1860, died 19.07.1866
- Oskar Heinrich Acher, born in 1895, child
WIKIPEDIA : https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cmentarz_protestancki_w_Wiskitkach
