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MALCOLM, JOHN (1751-1815)

MALCOLM, JOHN, churchman; b. Scotland, c1751; m. 1787, Jean Murdoch, d/o John Murdoch and h/w Janet; d. Aug 1815.

Tradition states that John Malcolm was a native of Banffshire, Scotland, who came to the Miramichi from Prince Edward Island around 1777 with the family of John and Janet Murdoch, whose daughter Jean he later married.

While the Murdochs settled and later received substantial land grants in the vicinity of Murdoch's Point, across the river from Bartibog, John Malcolm became a grantee at Nelson. A devout convert to Catholicism, he began to build a small log chapel in 1796. Known as Malcolm's Chapel, this served as a place of worship for the Catholic settlers at Nelson until St Patrick's Church was erected in 1826-27. On 17 August 1815 Malcolm's remains were interred near the chapel in a ceremony at which Father Charles French officiated.

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[d] Broderick / Fraser (L)


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