User:Drewadamson

Andrew (Drew) Adamson was born at a very early age in Paisley, Scotland, on the 8th of November 1958. In response to that oft-asked question, when a door has been left ajar, he was, in fact, born in a park, Barshaw of that ilk. His father, Andrew Snr, son of John and Annie, was born in Cowdenbeath, Fife, on 23rd January, 1929. Having a Fifer as a father has apparently caused no major psychological damage, although there are dissenting voices. Andrew Snr had three siblings, an elder, Joanne, Drew's favourite auntie (Aunt Joan as Drew and his younger brother Iain called her), and two younger brothers, George and John. Joanne married Frederick Finnie, a successful cigarette trader in the wartime black market, and a major influence on the youg Drew's life, his favourite uncle and a man of unimpeachable character. Drew's mother, Mary Stevenson McMillan Tweedie aka May, despite the multi-barreled name, was born, on 29th April 1929, into the working-class family of the world renowned welder Robert Tweedie of Paisley and his wife, Mary, having three junior siblings, Robert Jnr, Duncan and James. Andrew Snr was a woodworker of some note, a devout Christian and a stalwart of his local parish Church of Scotland, St Ninians, in in the leafy Ferguslie suburb of Paisley