BULLOCK, JOHN PETER (1862-1940)

BULLOCK, JOHN PETER, steamer captain; b. Chatham, 1862 (bap. 10 Oct 1862), s/o John Bullock and Margaret Costigan; m. 1896, Mary Ann Knight, a native of West Bathurst, N.B.; d. Dorchester, Mass., 17 Jan 1940.

The son of a ship carpenter who was later a police constable in Chatham, John P. Bullock grew up around ships and worked much of his adult life on the water. In 1893 he was captain of the ferry Nelson, which was owned by the Miramichi Steam Navigation Co. He commanded this vessel until she was sold in Sydney, N.S., in 1902. He then served as manager of the MSN Co. for several years before becoming captain of the Miramichi, the company's ferry on the Newcastle to Chatham route. He was also interested in steamboat architecture and was the designer, in 1910, of the J. O'B, which was owned by High Sheriff John O'Brien.

About 1923 Bullock and his family moved to Dorchester, Mass. His wife, Mary A. Knight, died in 1933. He was survived in 1940 by a daughter and two sons.