Excise Officer, Lismore and Kilchoman

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In 1838 an ancestor, Thomas Duffus,  was appointed to the Board of Excise and was first appointed to Paisley, Renfrewshire. From 1841, he was serving  as an Officer of the Revenue at Port Appin, and ten years later, was in Port Charlotte. Would he have been collecting taxes from the distilleries on Islay or would he have been investigating illegal stills, (or a bit of both?) He seems to have left Islay prior to 1854, for his next posting in Linlithgow, where his occupation was given as Supervisor of Inland Revenue, (Excise Branch).