occupation Gale Boy

[ReneR]

Thanks for this.  Have you any idea what a Gate Boy was?  Some kind of watcher do you think?

[Gadget]

Hi

A bit difficult to say, apart from looking after/opening and closing  a gate.  Springburn was fairly industrialised by 1861 so he could have worked on a canal gate, a railway gate or, possibly, at the chemical works. I don't think it would have been a toll gate.

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[ReneR]

That makes sense.  Likely to have been in the railway as Springburn was a railway centre.

Thanks!