DOBIE, DOBBIE, DOBY
Lists, Documents & Photos

CONTACTS & RESEARCH :

• Dobie / Dobbie / Doby researchers & links
• Internet-accessible Databases. Here is a large page of links where I've found Dobie, Dobbie, etc. records. But you can search these databases for any surnames you wish. All can be searched for free but I've also listed a few who sell copies of the records pointed to in their search indexes. This is an on-going project and I'll update it as I find new links. Please notify me if you find broken links. (Updated May 1, 2016)

DUMFRIES, TINWALD, DALRUSCAN, KIRKBEAN, SCOTLAND :

• Some recent photographs of Dumfries (including a "Dobie's Wynd" street sign) and of Tinwald and Kirkbean churches and graveyards where many of our direct ancestors are buried. Sent to me by Robert Dobie, who took most of the photos in September, 2002; others in May, 2007.
• K. S. Dobie & Son Store Closes After 108 Years This is a transcription of a news story from the Dumfries Courier, Nov. 28, 1997. This Dobie firm, founded in 1889, specialised in grains and farm supplies. Thanks again to Robert Dobie, for this clipping. (The photo collection above has one of Robert in front of the old Dobie store).
• Photos of Dalruscan Farm. The name of Dalruscan or Dalruskin is firmly connected to the Dobie family. It is a farm about three miles north of Tinwald (see the photos above). If you look at the Gracie Tree several items below here, you will see many references to Dobies from "Dalruskin". Robert Dobie has again come through with some photos of Dalruscan as it is now known, taken in May 2007.

DOBIE :

• Extracts From "The Dobie Connection" which is the newsletter of the Dobie Clan of North America.
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  Descendants Of John David Dobie & Isabella Russell :

  John David Dobie and Isabella Russell were probably both born in Dumfries, Scotland, c. 1812, and were married there c. 1834. The family moved to Birkenhead, England, just across the Mersey River from Liverpool, where John, a stonecutter, worked on construction of the Liverpool docks. Coming to Canada in 1849, they settled first in Toronto and then in Chatsworth, Ont. where they both are buried. Their nine children lived in Bruce Mines, Thessalon, Owen Sound and Port Arthur (now part of Thunder Bay), all in Ontario.

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  Detail from the gravestone of John Dobie and Isabella Russell in Chatsworth, Ontario.

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  • Descendants of John David Dobie & Isabella Russell. Descendant lists, photographs, obituaries, documents, etc.

    • Descendants of William Currie Dobie & Sarah Dorothy Coatsworth.
    • Descendants of Elizabeth Dobie & John McKessock.
    • Descendants of Joseph Brydon Dobie & Jessie Alice Ramage.
    • Descendants of James Barnes Dobie & Mary Caroline Lobb.
    • Descendants of Mary Currie Dobie & Thomas Buchanan.
  • Photos of the Chatsworth graveyard and War Memorial. John and Isabella Dobie are buried in the United Church graveyard in Chatsworth Ont. Here are a few photos I took there in October 2005 of their gravestone as well as of the gravestone of John McKessock and his wife Elizabeth Dobie (daughter of John Dobie and Isabella Russell). There are also photos of the War Memorial in Chatsworth, engraved with the names of J. Milton Dobie, William J. McKessock, and two Galbraith men who may or may not be connected to us.
    Updated with two earlier photos from M. J. McCarron.
  • Two photos of the old Dobie farm near Chatsworth, Ont. This farm was once owned by John Dobie and Isabella Russell, and is just a short drive from the Chatsworth cemetery (see the photos above). They moved there from Toronto in the mid-1850's. These photos were sent to me by M. J. McCarron.
  • Dobie-Sutherland photograph album. Photos mostly of the family of Annie Louise (Dobie) Sutherland who lived in Lytton, BC, 1890's, and her nieces and nephews in Port Arthur, Ontario. Annie was a daughter of William Currie Dobie of Port Arthur, Ont.
  • Dorothy Dobie's photograph album. These photos are mostly of Dorothy Dobie and her younger brother Russell, taken in Port Arthur, Ont., c. 1906-10. In addition, the album contains many loose photos of family and friends, taken up to the 1930's. Several of the photos are also in the Dobie-Sutherland album above.
  • Bill Dobie's photograph album. William Lovell Dobie (my father) was a younger brother of Dorothy and Russ (see the photo album above). This 50-page photo album was given to him in 1922 when he was 13 years old and the photos range from then until he was in Queen's University in 1934. Most photos were taken in Port Arthur, Ontario, and at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and many of his friends are named.
  • Biography of James Samuel Dobie. (Dominion Land Surveyor, Bruce Mines, Ont., 1873-1942).
  • Sailing Across the Atlantic Sixty Years Ago. Written by William Currie Dobie, from The Thunder Bay Historical Society Fifth Annual Report; Papers of 1914.
    • See the Richard Cobden's complete passenger list. The transcription of the passenger list of the Richard Cobden (261 names) which landed in New York City on 24 August, 1849. The Dobie people described in the article above are all listed here. This is a link to my history website and will be shown in a new browser window.
  • Dobie-related photos from Port Arthur, Virginiatown, Kearns & Atikokan Ontario. (Updated November 6, 2014).
  • Dora (Dobie) Rust-D'Eye was the costume designer for Opera Atellier in Toronto, for over 21 years. This illustrated feature story on their production of Médée, ran in The Toronto Star on October 31, 2002.
    
  
  
  
  

  Descendants Of William Currie Dobie & Elizabeth Coulthard :

  William Currie Dobie was the older brother of John David Dobie (box above) and the two families sailed from Liverpool to New York City together in 1849 (see the article and passenger list above). I don't know much about this family except what I extracted from Ontario Archives records. The family settled in or near Mosa or Ekfrid Twps., and their children seem to have settled in the London, Ont. area. Information is needed on this line.

  • Descendants of William Currie Dobie and Elizabeth Coulthard A descendant list from Ontario Archives records.

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  The so-called "Gracie Tree" :

    Based on a family tree drawn up in 1873 by James Campbell Gracie of Dumfries, the Gracie Tree shows the ancestors of an Alexander Dobie of Tinwald, Dumfries-shire, from about 1560 to about 1870. John David Dobie and William Currie Dobie (see the two boxes above) are descended from a branch of this tree. There are many gaps and inconsistencies, so your help is very much needed if you have any information.
  Click here to see the transcription.
  Included in the transcription is much new and corrected information sent to me by Dobie researchers, as well as census information about a few of the families.
  Surnames in the transcription are: Aitcheson, Anderson, Bell, Black, Blair, Boyd, Broach, Burgess, Byers, Cleeland, Cowan, Craig / Craik, Currie, Dalziel, Dickson / Dixon, Dobie, Downing, Earnshaw, Ferguson, Fullarton, Gamble, Glover, Gold, Goodsir, Gordon, Haining, Hallett, Halliday, Helme, Herb, Hunter, Jardine, Jeffrey, Johnstone, Koykka, Lawson, Limont, Link, Little, MacGillivray, MacMillan, Martin, Mathieson, McClure, McDonald, McFadzean, McGeorge, McKinnol, McMurdo, Meumann, Miller, Murray, Palmer, Paterson, Ritchie, Robson, Ronald, Scotland, Scott, Seton, Sloan / Sloun, Small, Smith, Somerville, Sproat, Stewart, Stirling, Strathearn, Swan, Telfer, Turner, Wagner, Ward, Webb, Wilkins, Wright. (Updated January 24, 2011)

  John David McEachern (1923 - 2008) son of John Allan McEachern and Mary Tina Dobie, was shown the original Gracie Tree when he was visiting Dumfries while stationed near there during World War II. He had it copied and brought it back to Canada. The tree shown above is a hand-drawn copy of John's copy. Click here to see his obituary and a much larger photo.

  See a full-size image of the Gracie Tree. This image will be about twice the width of your screen, and was constructed from about 15 scans. There may be several versions in circulation (this one was hand-copied in 1972), so if you have an earlier version I sure would like to hear from you.

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• Dobie References in Tinwald (Scotland) Registry Records.
• Letter By Agnes Dobie, 1849. Agnes had eloped and wrote this from Toronto.
• Letter from John Dobie to Walter Bell, 1819. This letter was written from Hardbush (now called Hartbush) in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. The relationship between John Dobie and this Bell family isn't known at this time. The Bells had moved to Miramichi, New Brunswick a year or so previously.
• Biography of James Frank Dobie (American author, 1888 - 1964).
• Descendants of James Dobie & Agnes Brown first settled in Deux Montagnes Co., QC.
• Short obituary of James Irving Dobie of Toronto, died 1923.
• Descendants of John Dobie & Jean Thompson (Parish of Kirkconnell, 1670's - 1860's).
• Disjunction Certificate, John Dobie & Mary Barber Document written in Tortherwald, DFS, SCT., 1820. They first settled in Lanark County, Ont., then where did they go?
• Some Dobie Records in the Ontario Archives Some birth, marriage and death records.
• Some originators of the Dobie Family A photo gallery -- first time published!
• A Dobie - Pattie Connection in Scotland Early & middle 1700's.
• DOBIE-SMITH Bible. This family first settled in Lanark County, Ontario, then moved on to Chesley, Bruce County, Ont. Surnames: Dobie, Elliot, Graham, Halliday, Holliday, Houston, Knox, Livingston, Mair, McLellan, Newell, Smith, Tatlock, Walls. Transcribed by Jay A. Nellis.
• Biography of Richard Dobie (Quebec fur trader, c.1731 - 1805).
• Descendants of William Dobie & Mary Lindsay (Mainsriddle, Scotland, 1760's).
  • With a major update detailing the descendants of Isabella Dobie and Robert Anderson.
  Surnames: Aitkin, Anderson, Crocket, Dalgleish, Dingwall, Grierson, Irvine, Kennedy, Lindsay, McHolme.
• Lineage of Col. William Fraser Dobie submitted when applying for family arms in 1925.
• A Short History of Stonihill / Stonyhill, a house which was occupied by the direct ancestors of Col. William Fraser Dobie (see the item above) from about 1600 to at least 1647. Four pages of the book History of the Regality of Musselburgh: With Numerous Extracts From The Town Records. are transcribed, thanks to Google Books. Also from the same book, a monumental inscription of Andrew Dobie of Tinwald and his wife Elizabeth Lawson.

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DOBBIE :

• Dobbie Families of Lanark County. My research notes, for what they're worth.
• Photo of Hannah Dobbie of Lanark County, Ont., and her daughter Theressa McGonegal, circa 1930.
• Family of David Dobbie of Grant's Pass, Oregon. Born January 14, 1885 in Glasgow, Scotland, he went to Oregon in 1919. Complete details are given on Connie Guardino's website.
• Descendants of Donald Dobbie & Agnes Armour (b. 1817, SCT.)
• Descendants of John Bilsland and Jean Wallace. Includes the descendants of Robert Dobbie & Jean Bilsland (b. 1802/3, Glasgow, d. in Lachute, QC). This page is pdf format, and includes several photographs. Surnames are: Bahsler, Baptie, Bates, Berg, Bilsland, Bird, Bond, Boone, Bothwell, Boyd, Brown, Buchanan, Carlson, Chapman, Cleland, Copeland, Crabbe, Crocker, Crowder, Dixon, Dobbie, Eaton, Evans, Farlane, Fraser, Gillies, Godden, Goertz, Greig, Groen, Hammond, Hayward, Horton, Innes, Johnson, Kidson, Klapwijk, Klassen, Krieger, Krywiak, Lancey, Lang, Lauze, Law, Leonard, Leroux, Lette, Mahon, Markus, Marshall, McFaul, McGalliard, McKay, McNeil, McOuat, Meissner, Minard, Mitchell, More, Myron, Nichols, O'Brien, Olsen, Oswick, Pahl, Parlee, Paton, Payne, Preston, Prophet, Riley, Rouleau, Scott, Smith, Starchuck, Stewart, Swail, Swaren, Teilmann, Truesdel, Vaillancourt, Wallace, Whynot, Wilkinson, Wylie, Zaporozan.
• Dobbie - Norris Family Group Sheet births & marriages in Fintry and Gargunnock, Stirling, SCT.
• Some Dobbie Records in the Ontario Archives Some births and deaths only.
• Biography of Sir William George Shedden Dobbie (b. 1879).
•   A Dobbie family in Ayrshire. Family of Thomas Dobbie & Helen Ramsay. Descendants lived in Dalmellington and Maybole. By the early 1900s one branch was in Pennsylvania. Submitted by Marc Archer. Connected surnames include: Burns, Campbell, Cummings, Davis, Dereberry, Ebig, Eckenrode, Flinn, Livingstone, MacIntyre, McKay, McQueen, Ramsay, Rennie/Rainey, Templeton. (Corrected August 9, 2012)

DOBY :

• Larry Doby, The second Black man to play in the majors.

ETC :

• Dobbies of the Fells. Like the Leprechauns of Ireland and the brownies of Scotland, the Dobbies of the English Lake District have a history all their own in Cumberland and Westmoreland.
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