After the war he worked as a customs and exciseofficer, settling in Gourock, Inverclyde.
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The Writer's Museum in Edinburgh holds four links of a surveying chain used by Burns while working as an ExciseOfficer in Dumfries.
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After the war and marriage to his beloved Daphne, he worked as a customs and exciseofficer in Glasgow, Prestwick, and Ireland before settling in Gourock, where his two daughters, Louise and Elaine, were brought up.