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Name: HOSIE, Andrew
Birth Date: 21 June 1860 New Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire
Death Date: 10 June 1939 Glasgow
Nationality: British
First Date: 1899
Profession: Uganda Railway - Winding Engine Driver
Married: In Whiteinch Partick, Glasgow 31 Dec 1887 Harriet Baird b. 1869 Govan
Children: Andrew (1888-1961); Jessie (1899 Bothwell); Catherine (28 Mar 1891 Bothwell); Mary (1893 Qawter); David (1897 Qawter); dau. Christian (1897 Qawter)
Book Reference: North, Mills Railway
General Information:
North - From Lanark, Scotland; not on list of English subordinates Dec 1899
Mills Railway - Escarpment - Winding Engines - The winding engines worked well and their crews, Alderson [sic], Hosie, McLean, Shutt, Stuart, Smart, Spence and Thom "were all comfortably housed".
1891 Scotland Census - he is 'engine keeper at colliery'