John William Moffat was born as the son of William Hood Moffat and Janet Peebles. He had at least 8 sons and 3 daughters with Margaret Kilpatrick Forrester. He lived in Newington, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1861 and Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He died on 30 April 1906, in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada, and was buried in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada.
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Scottish: variant of Moffatt .
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