John Jeffery Purves

John Jeffery Purves, 1841-1922

  • Born in St Stephens Upper Mills, New Brunswick. 
  • Did not come to Victoria until after the 1911 census where he was 70 years old and a millwright in New Brunswick.
  • Buried at Ross Bay.
  • Loyalist Ancestor: Lutheran Morris, 1739-1839, Advocate Harbour, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.