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GOODFELLOW, ALEXANDER RANKIN (1839-1906)

GOODFELLOW, ALEXANDER RANKIN, seaman and steam ferry captain; b. Lower Newcastle, 12 Nov 1839, s/o Alexander Goodfellow and h/w Elizabeth; m. 1872, Caroline McIntosh, d/o Adolphus McIntosh, of Chatham and Neguac; d. Ferry Road, 29 Mar 1906.

Alexander R. Goodfellow was a student of the County Grammar School for a time under James Millar. Afterwards he worked as a clerk in a tinsmithing shop in Neguac. In the 1860s and 70s he was absent from the Miramichi much of the time, but he was living at Neguac with his wife and family in 1881 and was enumerated in the census as a seaman. Around 1888 he and his family moved to Ferry Road, opposite Chatham, and he became employed with the Miramichi Steam Navigation Co., which operated freight and passenger ferries on the river. In 1893 he was the purser on the ferry Miramichi, on the Chatham-Escuminac route. He had been promoted to captain of this vessel by 1894, and in 1902 was placed in command of the company's new 400-passenger flagship, the Alexandra, again on the downriver route.

Goodfellow, who was "a very fine man in all relations in life," was survived in 1906 by his wife, Caroline McIntosh, and several children. A son, James S. Goodfellow, was also a Miramichi steamboat captain. In the 1940s he succeeded John McEachern as skipper of the Chatham ferry Frances Ullock.

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[b/m] church records [d] Advocate 4 Apr 1906 / Advance 4 May 1893, 17 May 1894 (ad); Advocate 19 Nov 1902; Leader 19 Feb 1909, 12 Dec 1952


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