Alexander Dobie, born about 1700, died about 1772 in Tinwald, Scotland, occupation Farmer.  He married --?--.
I.	John Dobie, born about 1718 in Hardbush, Scotland, died 28-Jul-1807 in Dumfries, Scotland, occupation Farmer. . He married Mary Glover, married __-___-____ in Hardbush, Scotland,4 born about 1724 in Scotland,2 died 11-Feb-1799 in Scotland.2
	A.	William Dobie.  He married Mary Murdock, married __-___-____.
		1.	William Currie Dobie, born about 1811 in Dumfries, Scotland, immigrated 1849 to Canada from England. .
			Notes: Middle name "Currie" confirmed by Irene Carruthers, Glencoe, Ont. To Canada via New York City in 1849 with his brother John Dobie & family.  See the article "Sailing Across the Atlantic Sixty Years Ago", by John's son W.C. Dobie.
			He married Elizabeth Coulthard, born about 1814 in Dumfries, Scotland, (daughter of George Coulthard and Ann Dixon or Dickson), immigrated 1849 to Canada from England.6
			a.	Mary Dobie, born 21 Jun 1832,, christened 25 Nov 1833 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England,8 immigrated 1849 to Canada from England.6 .
			b.	George Dobie, born 25 Nov 1833,, christened 8 Jan 1834 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England,10 immigrated 1849 to Canada from England.6 .
			c.	Robert Coulthard Dobie, born 1-Mar-1838, born Apr-May-Jun 1838 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, died Jan-Feb-Mar 1840 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England. .
				Notes: "Coulthard" from 1841 census, Liverpool.
			d.	William Montrose Dobie, born 20-Jul-1840 in Liverpool, England,, died 20-Oct-1909 in Glencoe, Ontario, Canada, (Victoria Street), immigrated 1849 to Canada from England,6 occupation 1870 Carpenter, farmer, occupation 1881 Brick & Tile Maker.15 .
				Notes: Marriage witnesses: John DOBIE, Mosa, and Margaret McCALLUM, Ekfrid. Married by Rev. George BRENNA, Presbyterian. Death certified by Catherine Dobie, Glencoe; James H. Woods, M.D. Died of "Hypostatic Pneumonia".
				He married Catherine McCallum, married 1-Dec-1870 in Melbourne Village, Ekfrid Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada, (see witness 1, 2) born 15-Jan-1845 in Ekfrid Township, Ontario, Canada,,15 (daughter of John McCallum and Mary McKellar), died 30-Jul-1910 in Glencoe, Ontario, Canada, (Victoria Street).
				(A)	Mary Dobie, born 1870 in Ontario.15 .
				(B)	William John Dobie, born 30-Jan-1886. .
			e.	Maggie Dobie, born 1847,,6 immigrated 1849 to Canada from England.6 .
			f.	John C. Dobie, born about 1843 in Liverpool, England, died 28-Nov-1930 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada,, (see witness 3) buried 1 Dec 1930 in New Liskeard, Ontario, Canada,25 (Undertaker was Reid & Son, 1065 Stl Clair Ave. W., Toronto.), occupation 1881 Farmer, occupation 1930 Carpenter,25 resided 28-Nov-1930 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, (191 Lauder Ave., Toronto.).
				Notes: Marriage witnesses: Rev. D.M. Kennedy, Glencoe; James Tait, Ekfrid. M. by Rev. Thomas Webster.  Age is wrong on marriage certificate.
				He married Barbara A. King, married 9-Nov-1876 in Mosa, Ontario, Canada, born __-___-1848 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States,, (daughter of Charles King and Elizabeth --?--), died 15-Feb-1920 in New Liskeard, Ontario, Canada,30, buried 18-Feb-1920 in New Liskeard, Ontario, Canada.,30
				Barbara: Notes: Stated on 1881 census (Mosa Twp.) that she was of German extraction, although
				on her death certificate, her father is stated to have been born in Holland.
				She was a widow and her previous name was WOOD, and had a son, Charles WOOD.
				She died of influenza two days before her daughter Elizabeth.
				(A)	Margery Dobie, born 28-Aug-1877 in Mosa Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada, resided 28-Nov-1930 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada,28 (1638 Dufferin St. 1st. Floor).
					Notes: Name is "Margery" on birth certificate, "Marjorie" on marriage certificate.  She stated her birth year as 1878 on the 1911 census.
					She married George Edward Peters, married 11-Jul-1907 in New Liskeard, Ontario, Canada, born 1 Jul 1880 in Edwardsburgh, Grenville County, Ontario, Canada,,,, (son of William Peters and Eliza Dixon or DuKlaw), occupation Carpenter, died 13 May 1966 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, (Toronto General Hospital), buried 16 May 1966 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada,40 (Westmount Memorial Park).
					George: Notes: Marriage witnesses: Humbert Bennet, New Liskeard; Lillian Zabic, Cleveland. Married by A.P. Lutten(?).
				(B)	William Carpenter Dobie, born 10-Jan-1879 in Mosa Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada, died 28-Jan-1955 in Oak Bay, British Columbia, Canada. .
				(C)	Mary King Dobie, born 13-Apr-1880 in Mosa Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada. . She married William Beattie Carrothers, married 25-Dec-1901 in London, Ontario, Canada, (300 Oxford Street), born 6-Nov-1869 in Westminster, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada,,, (son of William B. Carrothers and Ellen Beattie), occupation Farmer.
					William: Notes: Marriage witnesses: Lillian Dobie, Chas. Wood, Westminster. M. by A.J. MacGilivray, Presbyterian.  Name spelled both "Carruthers" and "Carrothers" on birth certificate.
				(D)	Lillian Dobie, born 10-Mar-1882 in Mosa Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada. . She married Herbert F. Bartley, resided (family) in London, Ontario, Canada,28 married 8 Apr 1908 in Cuyahoga County, Ohio,,,28 resided (family) 1910 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, born about 1880 in Canada,50, (son of George Bartley and Jane Walton), occupation 8 Apr 1908 Milkman.52
				(E)	Elizabeth Barbara Dobie, born 1-Mar-1884 in Mosa Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada, died 17-Feb-1920 in New Liskeard, Ontario, Canada, buried 18-Feb-1920 in New Liskeard, Ontario, Canada.54 .
					Notes: "Barbara" from son's marriage record.
					She married Andrew (Andy) Pettett or Pettit, married 14-Sep-1911 in Haileybury, Ontario, Canada, born 23 Feb 1881,, (son of James Pettett and Permilla Bowden), occupation Lineman.
					Andrew: Notes: Marriage witnesses: H.F. & Lillian Barrtey(?), Cleveland, Ohio. Married by G.R. Turk. Name is "Pettit" in death record, "Pettett" in marriage record.
				(F)	George King Dobie, born 15-Dec-1885 in Mosa Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada. .
				(G)	Laura Dobie, born 9-Nov-1887 in Mosa Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada. .
			g.	Jane Dobie, born about 1850 in England. .
		2.	John David Dobie, born about 1812 in Dumfries, Scotland, died 16-May-1882 in Chatsworth, Ontario, Canada,, buried in Chatsworth, Ontario, Canada, (Chatsworth U.C. Cemetery), occupation Stonecutter, farmer, immigrated 1849 to Canada from England. .
			Notes: The following is from a biography of John's son, William Currie
			Dobie, in History of Ontario, Vol 2, pages 796-6, published about
			1907.
			     (John Dobie was) a stone cutter and builder by trade, and in
			1849 he brought his family to Canada, residing for a year at
			Dunwich, on the Thames River, in Elgin county, where he engaged
			in farming, but the occupation proved uncongenial, and he removed
			to Toronto, where he resumed work at his trade.  He was employed
			on the construction of a number of public buildings in Toronto,
			and confined his operations for five years to the building
			interests of that city and of Whitby.  In 1855 he again resumed
			farming in Grey county.
			Family tradition is that he worked on St. James (Anglican) Cathedral in Toronto, as well as the Whitby Court House. Ruth (Fleming) Larmour states death date of 3 April 1812, but has no source (letter of 13 May, 1997). Name "David" from Althea Dobie, letter 1963.
			He married Mary Isabella Russell, married in Scotland,23 born circa 1813 in Scotland, (daughter of John Russell and Elizabeth Murdoch), baptized 22-Nov-1813 in Dumfries, Scotland, died 3-Nov-1886 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada,63 buried in Chatsworth U.C. Cemetery, Grey Count, Ontario, Canada,64 immigrated 1849 to Canada from England.65
			Mary: Notes: This is the text of an e-mail sent me by George Ely Russell, June 26, 1997:
			
			"According to the International Genealogical Index of Scotish parish
			registers, John Dobie and Isabel Russel had a child baptized at Dumfries 17
			March 1835.  Isabel Russel was baptized at Dumfries 22 Nov. 1813, daughter
			of John Russel and Elisabeth Murdoch.
			  The Lord John Russell family has been well-studied and published, and you
			can be fairly certain that there was no Dumfries connection to that English
			family.
			 I suggest that you arrange to have the Dumfries Parish Registers checked
			for all Russel entries. You can access them on microfilm via interlibrary
			loan at your LDS (Mormon) Branch Family History Library.
			  There was also a marriage at Dumfries in 1829 of a James Russel and a
			Dobbie woman."
			Port Arthur papers state she had just moved to her daughter's house on Boyd Street in Owen Sound. She fell into a cistern and was drowned.
			Notes: A girl, Elizabeth, age 12, shown living with this family in 1881 census. This would probably have been Mary Elizabeth, daughter of William Currie Dobie.
			a.	John Dobie, born 5 Mar 1835 in Dumfries, Scotland,,, baptized 17-Mar-1835 in Dumfries, Scotland,67 died 3-Dec-1888 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada,70 occupation 1888 Labourer,70 immigrated 1849 to Canada from England.65 .
				Notes: Single.  Died of "Dropsy".
			b.	Annie Dobie, born __-___-____.23 .
				Notes: This Annie may not have existed.  Not listed with the family in 1841 census in Liverpool.  Also not mentioned in W.C. Dobie's account of trip across the Atlantic -- he says "there were five of us". Listed here only because she is in "The Dobie Family", produced by Barbara (Dobie) Kram.
			c.	David Russell Dobie, born about 1837 in Scotland, died 17-Jul-1900 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, occupation Land & insurance agent, immigrated 1849 to Canada from England.65 .
				Notes: Lived at West Street, Owen Sound at time of death. Mother's name given as "Ann" on marriage certificate.  Marriage witnesses: Thos. Shaw, Wm. Dobie. Married by Rev. John A. Williams, Wesleyan Methodist, Owen Sound. Mother-in-law Jane Shaw living with David & Charlotte in 1891 census.
				He married Charlotte Ann Shaw, married 26-Jan-1860 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada,, born 4-Oct-1836 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, (daughter of Thomas or Robert Shaw and Sarah Jane --?--), died 14-Oct-1923 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada.
				(A)	Annie Paterson Dobie, born 4-Jul-1863 in Ontario, occupation School teacher, died 23 Dec 1930 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada. .
					Notes: "Paterson" middle name is from her death record.
					She was given copyright #13973, dated 14th May, 1903,  for words and music of the song "The Jolly Boys of Canada". (Canada Gazette, volume 36, number 47, 23 May 1903, page 3, per Library & Archives Canada website).
				(B)	Jennie Dobie, born about 1866. .
				(C)	Isabel Dobie, born about 1869 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, died 18-Sep-1884 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada. .
					Notes: Died of "Billious Fever".
				(D)	David Russell Dobie, born 9-May-1871 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada,, died 25-Dec-1952 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, buried 27-Dec-1952 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, (Greenwood Cemetery), occupation Lawyer, publisher,84,83 military 1 Feb 1916 - 31 Oct 1917 37th Battalion, 147th Battalion, 8th Reserve Battalion.83 .
					Notes: This is the obituary of D. R. Dobie, hand dated Dec. 26, possibly from the Owen Sound Sun-Times. Sent to me by Jay Nellis, March, 1997.
					
					D.R. DOBIE DIES,
					LAWYER, EDITOR,
					OVER 50 YEARS
					
					   A life-long citizen who for over half a century was identified with the legal profession and journalism in Owen Sound, D. Russell Dobie, passed away at noon on Christmas day after a long illness. He was a man of wide interests in music and in military and fraternal affairs, and was 81 years of age.
					   David Russell Dobie was born in Owen Sound, the only son of the late D. R. Dobie, Sr. He attended the local Collegiate and Toronto University, from which he graduated in 1893. He then went to Osgoode Hall, was called to the bar in 1898. He practiced law in Owen Sound until 1906, when he joined the editorial staff of The Sun.
					   In 1912, in partnership with the late H. R. Moffat and H. P. Smithson, now of Detroit, he purchased the Owen Sound Advertiser, from J. H. Little, who founded it 50 years earlier. Mr. Dobie became editor of this pioneer paper. Later Messrs. Moffat and Smithson sold their interests to J. Dean Findlay and the firm of Dobie & Findlay published The Advertiser until it was discontinued in 1923.  Mr. Dobie continued in the general printing business.
					   In 1934 he joined the Sun-Times staff as chief editorial writer, a post he held until his retirement in 1946.
					   As a young man Mr. Dobie was a member of the old 31st Regiment and in 1916 went overseas as a Major with the 147th. Battalion in the First Great War.  He was always interested in music and was a member of the old Aeolian Chorus and the later Orpheus chorus and the Orpheus male quartette.
					   Mr. Dobie was a past master of North Star Masonic Lodge, and a member of the Preceptory.  When the Kiwanis Club was organized in Owen Sound he was one of the charter members.  He was a member of the Church of Christ (Disciples).
					   In 1924, Mr. Dobie was married to Ruth Fleming of Owen Sound, who survives, together with two sisters, Mrs. J. C. Forester of Hamilton, and Mrs. A. S. Butchart of Beverley Hills, Cal.
					He married Ruth Eliza Jean Fleming, married 24-Oct-1924 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, born 27-Aug-1882 in Kilsyth, Ontario, Canada, (daughter of Charles Fleming and Eliza Lydia Warren), died __-Apr-1971 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada.
					Ruth: Notes: "Eliza Jean" from Ruth (FLeming) Larmour, letter of 13 May, 1997.
				(E)	Mary Ida Dobie, born 12-Nov-1873 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, died __-Jan-1967 in Beverly Hills, California, United States. . She married Alexander Stephens Butchart, married 29-Mar-1899 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, born 22-Jan-1872 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, (son of W. George McLaughlin Butchart and Mary E. Chatwin), occupation Merchant.
					Alexander: Notes: Marriage witnesses: D. Russell Dobie, Thessalon; Bessie Scully, Owen Sound. Married by Rev. I. Somerville.  Connected with the Canada Cement Co., moved to Beverley Hills, Ca. in 1907. Killed in a car accident, possibly 1950's. (Jay Nellis' documents, per Mora Hoskins, Desboro, ON).
					For some reason he is listed as "Allen", age 12, in the 1881 census, making his birth year 1869, however the 1869 birth year is confirmed by his birth record.
				(F)	Allan Cameron Dobie, born 5-Apr-1876 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, died 25-Dec-1880 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada. .
					Notes: Died of "Scarlatina Maligna".
			d.	William Currie Dobie, born 1-Sep-1839 in Liverpool, England,,, christened 8 Sep 1839 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England,95 died 13-Nov-1928 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada,,97 buried 15 Nov 1928 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada (Riverside Cemetery), occupation Police magistrate,96 immigrated 1849 to Canada from England,65 census 1871 in Bruce Mines, Ontario, Canada, (Age 32 years), census 1881 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada, (Age 41 years), occupation 1881 Grocer clerk,100 census 1901 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada, (Age 61 years), census 1911 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada, (Age 72 years).
				Notes: This is the obituary of W.C. Dobie, mainly from the Port Arthur, News Chronicle, Wednesday, November 14, 1928, with an additional paragraph [1 bracketed thus] from his obituary in the Toronto Mail of the same date.  Additional information [2 bracketed thus] is taken from a biography in The History of Ontario, Vol. 2, Pages 795-6, which was published about 1907.
				
				W.C. DOBIE IS
				DEAD AFTER 56
				YEARS HERE
				   ----
				IN THRTY YEARS AS POLICE
				   MAGISTRATE HEARD
				     30,000 CASES
				       ----
				COMMUNITY INTERESTS
				       ----
				Active in School Affairs and
				 First Initiate of Shuniah
				      Masonic Lodge
				          ----
				     William Currie Dobie, for thirty-one years Police Magistrate
				in Port Arthur, died at his home, 16 Regent Street, at 6:30 last
				evening, in his ninetieth year.  Mr. Dobie had been ailing for
				several weeks, but it was not until a week ago that his condition
				became serious.  He recently underwent a minor operation, but
				members of the family say it did not contribute to his death.
				     The news of Mr. Dobie's death, whle not unexpected, was a
				shock to the citizens of Port Arthur and Fort William who had
				known him for many years.  His death removes one of Port Arthur's
				earliest citizens, a resident of the city and district for more
				than half a century.
				
				Crossed Atlantic by Sail
				
				     Born in Liverpool, England, September 1, 1839, Mr. Dobie
				came to Canada when ten years of age, crossing the ocean in a
				sailing vessel which took many days to make the passage.  With
				his parents he settled in Bruce County, Ontario, and moved to
				Port Arthur in 1872.  Here he engaged in business with Thos.
				Marks & Bros. as supervisor of the company's various activities
				in the town.  He was appointed Police Magistrate in 1890 for the
				town of Port Arthur and the district, which extended as far East
				as Chapleau, a distance of 400 miles.  He retired from the Bench
				October 31, 1921, and his place was taken by W.W. O'Brien,
				formerly District Magistrate at Fort William.
				
				Tried 30,000 Cases
				
				     During his tenure of office Mr. Dobie tried no fewer than
				30,000 cases in the Port Arthur Police Court, and it was to his
				credit that only seven out of that total were appealed, and in
				the more serious cases out of the seven his judgement was upheld
				by the appeal court judges.  The longest sentence ever imposed by
				him on an offender was seven years with twenty lashes.  The early
				jurisdiction of Mr. Dobie extended from Port Arthur to Rideout,
				on the Canadian Pacific Railway, although he never had occasion
				to go further East than White River.  At the time of his
				appointment to the Bench there were only magistrates at Port
				Arthur, Sault Ste. Marie, North Bay and Sudbury in the Western
				portion of Ontario.
				
				Always Near Water
				
				     To quote from a Western daily (See column by "The Wanderer"
				in Winnipeg Evening Tribune, November 18, 1927) which recently
				published a biography of Mr. Dobie, the following is written:
				"Mr. Dobie hailed from the Mersey side, and it is said that those
				who are reared in the great ports of the world are never happy if
				they stray away from the sight of shipping.  Port Arthur, despite
				the fact that it is as yet an inland, need concede few points to
				Liverpool in cosmopolitanism; it has this further advantage, that
				one need but step back from the shore to be in the primeval
				forest and among the treasure-bearing rocks.  Mr. Dobie's choice
				of his New World home was a happy one.  He was more than a good
				mixer; he had that indefinable bonhommie of the harbor-folk, that
				meets all races, creeds and colors on an equal footing.  He has
				done his share of pioneering in Canada in a place where he could
				still keep one eye on a busy harbor and rub shoulders with the
				sturdy cosmopolites who ply the trackless ways of commerce."
				
				Early Life
				
				     Mr. Dobie was the son of John and Isabella (Russell) Dobie
				of Dumfries, Scotland.  He was educated at St. Peter's
				Presbyterian Boys' School, Birkenhead, England; public shools,
				Toronto; Whitby Grammar School, Whitby, Ontario.  His first work
				was farming in County Grey, Ontario, where he had charge of his
				father's homestead until he was twenty-one years of age.  [2 . .
				. Mr. Dobie made his way To Western Ontario in 1860, being
				employed during the succeeding twelve years in Bruce Mines in the
				Algoma district.]
				     In 1865 he married Sarah Dorothy Coatsworth, of St. Joseph,
				Miss., [Incorrect information! Sarah Dorothy Coatsworth was born
				at Perry's lead mine, St. Francis County, Missouri, and was
				living at Bruce Mines with her family when she married] daughter
				of Joshua Coatsworth, mining engineer, [who was born in]
				Middleton, Durham, England [2 of Bruce Mines, who was at one time
				manager for the Montreal Mining Company at Michipicaten, and
				later postmaster at Bruce Mines.]
				       [2 In 1868 he entered the employ of the firm of Thomas
				Marks & Brother, in the capacity of clerk, there remaining for
				four years.  In 1872 he was sent by that firm to take charge of
				its branch house at Port Arthur, then called Prince Arthur's
				Landing, and retained supervision of the business during the
				following twelve years.]
				     On his arrival in Prince Arthur's Landing in 1872, Mr. Dobie
				entered the employ of Thomas Marks & Bros., and remained with the
				firm until 1884, when he entered the general store business with
				John C. Hasking under the firm name of Hasking & Dobie.  He later
				sold his interest in this business and in 1887 he entered into
				partnership with George Marks, Jr., and Harold A. Wiley, also in
				the general store business.  The firm operated under the title of
				W.C. Dobie & Co.  In 1889 he purchased the interests of Marks and
				Wiley and in 1894 disposed of the business to his son, J.C. Dobie
				who amalgamated with other concerns to form the present business
				of The Marks-Clavet-Dobie Co., Limited.
				
				Public Service
				
				     Mr. Dobie's service to the public dates back many years.
				His first public office was as councillor for the Municipality of
				Shuniah before the Municipality of Port Arthur was established.
				He was five years a member of the Council of Shuniah.  In 1886 he
				was elected a member of the Port Arthur Town Council and was re-
				elected in 1887 and 1888.
				     In educational matters the records of the Board of Education
				show that he was first elected a trustee of the School Board in
				1875, serving also in 1876, 78 and 88.  He was chairman of the
				Board in 1877, succeeding John Parke.  He served continuously as
				secretary or auditor from 1879 to 1884.  The Board of Education
				has no records from 1884 to 1903.  In 1903 he was again elected a
				trustee and retired from the Board in 1907.
				
				Other Activities
				
				     In politics Mr. Dobie was a Liberal, although he took no
				active part in politics for a number of years.  He was an
				Inspector of Mines for the Dominion Government when the Silver
				Islet, Pie Island and Shuniah mines were in operation, and was
				also Overseer of Fisheries for the Dominion Government for many
				years.
				     In religion Mr. Dobie was a Presbyterian, being a member of
				and several times Chairman of the Board of Managers of St. Paul's
				Presbyterian Church.  He assisted in gathering funds to build the
				first Presbyterian lecture room, as it was then called.  That
				building is still standing and is today occupied by F. W. Virgo,
				South Court street, a half block South of Arthur on the East
				side.  He also collected money for the first organ to provide
				music for the choir, of which he was precentor, being a great
				lover of music.
				     [1 . . . (he kept) voluminous diaries with an actual record
				of weather conditions dating back to 1872, when he first arrived
				in Port Arthur.  (The headline of his obituary in the Mail
				referred to him as a "weather prophet").]
				
				As a Mason
				
				     Mr. Dobie held the distinction of being the first initiate
				to Shuniah Lodge, A. F. & A. M., which occurred June 7, 1873.  He
				was Master of Shuniah Lodge in 1876, 1877 and 1883, and District
				Deputy Grand Master of Algoma District.  He entered Shuniah
				Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, on March 24, 1893; elected to the
				office of Scribe N. 1893, and Excellent Second Principal in 1897.
				He was a life member of both Shuniah Lodge and Shuniah Chapter,
				and in 1923 he was presented with the Masonic Long Service Medal
				by Grand Lodge.  Mr. Dobie was also a member of Port Arthur
				Lodge, Independent Order of Oddfellows, and a Past District
				Deputy Grand Master.
				
				Surviving Family
				
				     Mr Dobie is survived by two Sons, J.C. Dobie, of Marks-
				Clavet-Dobie Co., Limited; E.J.B. Dobie, of the Bonin-Dobie-
				Jackson Insurance Co.; two daughters, Elizabeth, at home, and
				Mrs. D.G. Sutherland, Vancouver, B.C.  Two brothers and a sister
				also survive.  They are James B., of Sudbury; Joseph B., of Owen
				Sound, and Mrs. T. Buchanan, of Thessalon, Ontario.  Mrs. Dobie
				died August 1, 1879.  One daughter, Wilna, died January 1, 1893,
				and Isobel died November 1, 1919.
				     Although his duties as Police Magistrate kept him at his
				office, and he had various offices during his thirty-one years on
				the Bench, Mr. Dobie found time to serve the public in many ways.
				He was an ardent educationalist, and many a man today owes to Mr.
				Dobie's zeal and energy the education he has and the position he
				holds in the mercantile and professional life of the country.
				
				Friend of Children
				
				     Mr. Dobie had a warm heart for the children and not a few of
				the younger citizens will remember that friendly pat on the head
				he received when meeting with the Magistrate.  He had always a
				kind word for the younger people, and it was his kindly manner
				and joking ways that endeared him to the school boys and girls of
				the earlier days.  Hardly a Friday afternoon passed in the old
				Central School that Mr. Dobie did not visit one or more of the
				rooms and spend an afternoon in story telling, of bears, of
				wolves, of sailing the ocean and many other yarns of the old
				days.  He was always a welcome figure at the schools, and
				probably no other man in the history of Port Arthur was better
				liked or more respected than Mr. Dobie, and his passing will
				recall to hundreds, their school days as no other thing could.
				It seemed that he lived his school days over again in those must
				rooms of the Old Central.
				     Fond of books and worth-while literature, Mr. Dobie became a
				brilliant conversationalist and his long service on the Bench
				gave to him a vast store of human experience to impart to his
				listeners.  He knew the true points of difference between workers
				and idlers, between knaves and honest men, between those who work
				wisely and those who work foolishly.  His personality and
				intellectual vigor compelled attention and respect wherever he
				went.  He was a good speaker and a man of good address and
				culture; conscientious and honest in all his dealings, a man of
				strong religious tendencies and a fine judge of human nature.  It
				has been said of him that he would sacrifice the ends of legal
				justice where there was a faint hope of reformation of the
				prisoner.
				     During the Great War he assisted in the various patriotic
				organizations, and after the war he was sympathetic towards ex-
				soldiers who appeared before him for infractions of law.  He
				maintained and often expressed in open court that it was a great
				difficulty for a man discharged from the army after long service
				and hardships to re-establish himself in civil life at short
				notice and he based many of his decisions on that understanding.
				
				Magistrate O'Brien's Tribute
				
				     Police Magistrate W.W. O'Brien, before court commenced this
				morning, paid a tribute to former Police Magistrate W.C. Dobie.
				"It is with the deepest regret," Mr. O'Brien said, "that I have
				(......ace) this morning the death of one of Port Arthur's oldest
				and most esteemed citizen, in the person of William Currie Dobie,
				who for thirty-two years presided over this court.  It had been
				my privilege to have been associated with the late Mr. Dobie for
				many years.  No kinder-hearted man ever presided over this court.
				He was always careful, extremely careful, before he deprived any
				man of his liberty.  To his family, the officials of this court,
				the police and myself extend deepest sympathy in the loss of a
				kind father, and to the citizens in their loss of a splendid and
				upright citizen."
				
				Masonic Funeral
				
				     The funeral, Thursday afternoon, will be under Masonic
				auspices.  It will leave the family residence, 16 Regent Street,
				at 2:30 o'clock, for service at St. Paul's United Church at 3
				o'clock, to be conducted by Rev. Andrew Rodan.  Pall bearers will
				be T.N. Andrew, Col. S.W. Ray, H.B. Hardy, T.F. Milne, Dr. C.N.
				Laurie and F.B. Allen.  Mayor Hourigan has requested that during
				the time of the funeral, blinds be drawn in the stores of the
				city.  Flags on the Whalen building, and public buildings are
				flying at half- mast today.  The Masonic service will be in
				charge of S.W. Ray, Past District Deputy Grand Master.
				He married (1) Sarah Dorothy Coatsworth, married 15-Apr-1865 in Bruce Mines, Ontario, Canada,96, born 17-Jun-1842 in Perrys Lead Mine, St. Francis County, Missouri, United States,96,103 (daughter of Joshua Coatsworth and Sarah Bowman), died 1-Aug-1879 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada,,96 census 1861 in Algoma, Algoma, Ontario, Canada,, census 1871 in Bruce Mines, Ontario, Canada, (Age 28 years).
				Sarah: Notes: According to an item in the Thunder Bay Sentinel of Jan. 30, 1877, Sarah gave birth to stillborn twins.
				He married (2) Mary Ann Dobie, married cir 1888, born 13-Feb-1851 in Ekfrid Township, Ontario, Canada, (daughter of David Dobie and Flora Roy McRae), died 13-Oct-1931 in Glencoe, Ontario, Canada,4 census 1911 in Middlesex West, Ontario, Canada.
				Mary: Notes: Mary Ann was living with W.C. Dobie in Port Arthur on 6 April 1891, which was the date of enumeration of that family in the 1891 census. The dirt on Mary Ann is that she was impossible to live with and W.C. Dobie's two eldest girls "drove her out of the house".
				(A)	Isabella (Bell) Sarah Dobie, (daughter of William Currie Dobie and Sarah Dorothy Coatsworth) born 22-Jan-1866 in Bruce Mines, Ontario, Canada, died 1-Nov-1919 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada,, (She died of breast cancer. 16 Regent Street), buried in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada, (Riverside Cemetery), occupation Artist, writer, census 1881 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada,100 (Age 15 years), census 1901 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada,101 (Age 34 years), never married.
					Notes: This is the obituary of Belle Dobie from a clipping, hand-dated 1919, probably from the Owen Sound newspaper.
					
					MISS BELLE DOBIE DIED AT PORT ARTHUR
					
					Well Known Writer and Artist Passed Away on Saturday
					
					     Miss Belle Dobie, daughter of Magistrate W. C. Dobie of Port Arthur, died at her home there on Saturday, November 1st.  Miss Dobie, who was a cousin of Miss Annie Dobie, Mr. D. R. Dobie and the late Capt. Milton Dobie, was well known as a writer and was a member of the Canadian Women's Press Club.  She was an editorial writer on the staffs of the Morning Herald and the Times Journal of Fort William and the News Chronicle of Port Arthur as well as a frequent contributor to the Canadian Courier and other publications.  Her latest work, a book entitled "Housewife and Editor", was ready for publication.
					     Miss Dobie, who has been a visitor in Owen Sound on several occasions, was also an artist of considerable talent, who loved to portray, by brush and pen, scenes of beauty and character sketches of people whose lives were beautiful.  Her death is a distict loss to Canadian journalism.
				(B)	Mary Elizabeth Dobie, (daughter of William Currie Dobie and Sarah Dorothy Coatsworth) born 10-Feb-1868 in Bruce Mines, Ontario, Canada, died 20-Jan-1959 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada, buried 22-Jan-1959 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada,116 (Riverside Cemetery), census 1881 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada,100 (Age 12 years), census 1901 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada,101 (Age 32 years).
					Notes: This is the obituary of Mary Elizabeth Dobie, in the Fort William Times-Journal, Wednesday, January 21, 1959, Page 2.
					
					Resident Since '72,
					PA Woman Dies at 90
					
					     One of the earliest residents of Port Arthur, Miss Elizabeth M. Dobie, 90, of Dawson Court, died Tuesday after a lengthy illness.  Born at Bruce Mines, she came to Port Arthur in 1872 by boat with her parents, the late Magistrate and Mrs. W.C. Dobie.
					     She was a member of First Presbyterian church and the evening auxiliary.
					     Surviving are, a sister, Mrs. D.G. Sutherland of Vancouver; two sisters-in-law, Mrs. E.J.B. Dobie, of 4 Regent street and Mrs. J.C. Dobie, of South High street, Port Arthur.
					     The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday from the Sargent chapel to Riverside cemetery. Rev. Gron Morgan will officiate.
					     The family requests that flowers be omitted.
				(C)	Joshua Coatsworth Dobie, (son of William Currie Dobie and Sarah Dorothy Coatsworth) born 5-Oct-1870 in Wellington Mines, Ontario, Canada,,96, baptized __ Jul 1871 in Chatsworth, Ontario, Canada,96 died 6-May-1943 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, buried 10-May-1943 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada,119 (Riverside Cemetery), occupation General Merchant, census 1871 in Bruce Mines, Algoma, Ontario, Canada, (Age recorded as 0), census 1881 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada,100 (Age 10 years), census 1901 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada,101 (Age 30 years), census 1911 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada, (Age 40 years), census 1921 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada. .
					Notes: A birth record for John David Dobie, born 5-Oct-1870  in Bruce Mines, is in the Ontario Archives, leaving me to believe there must have been twins born. But in August of 2008 when I was looking through a pile of old insurance papers which had been stored in a tin trunk in Dorothy (Dobie) Fraser's basement, I found a statutory declaration dated 13 March, 1908, signed by W. C. Dobie, stating that Joshua Coatsworth Dobie was so named at his baptism, but had been registered as John David Dobie. Also, a letter of Jan. 23, 1996 from J.C. Dobie's  son, Rev. Dr. George Dobie, says in part: "My father had no twin as far as we know.  He has told us he began his life as John David, then later his name was changed to Joshua Coatsworth.  If he told us the reason, we weren't listening.  It may have something to do with the relations between his parents."
					
					Note that "John David" was the name of his paternal grandfather, so changing his name to that of his maternal grandfather would seem to  point to some sort of family tension.
					
					This is the text of the obituary of Joshua Coatsworth Dobie from a clipping hand-dated May 6, 1943, probably from the Port Arthur News Chronicle.
					
					Pioneer Here,
					J.C. Dobie Dies
					
					     A resident of Port Arthur since 1872 and prominent in
					business, civic and church life of the community, Joshua
					Coatsworth Dobie, 72, died suddenly in hospital at Toronto this
					morning.
					     Mr. Dobie, who in recent years had been troubled with
					failing sight, went to Toronto about two weeks ago for an eye
					operation.  Apparently well on the way to recovery following the
					operation, he died suddenly while eating breakfast today.  Mrs.
					Dobie was in Toronto with him.  The body will be returned here
					for burial.
					     Mr. Dobie was a son of the late Magistrate W.C. Dobie, who
					occupied the bench for 32 years until his retirement in 1919, and
					who died in 1928.  Mr. Dobie was born at Bruce Mines, east of
					Sault Ste. Marie, and came to Port Arthur with his family when
					less than two years old.  He attended public school and the Old
					High School here.
					     A life long member of the Presbyterian Church, Mr. Dobie
					took an active part in its affairs and for many years was on the
					board of managers.  He took an active part in building the
					present St. Paul's church, when it was Presbyterian, and also in
					building First Presbyterian Church on Cameron Street.  He served
					for many years on the Board of Education, was chairman in 1909
					when the Collegiate Institute was built, and also on later
					occasions.  He was a member of Port Arthur Lodge, I.O.O.F., and
					for many years has been a member of the Riverside Cemetary Board.
					     Mr. Dobie had a long connection in Port Arthur's business
					life.  The Dobie store was started by his father, who turned it
					over to him on his appointment as magistrate.  Mr. Dobie operated
					the store until about 1896, when he became associated in the
					Marks, Clavet, Dobie Company.  The first store was on the present
					site of the Customs Building and the firm had two wharves, the
					Marks dock, now the C.N.R. No. 1 dock, and the Clavet dock, later
					known as the Booth dock.
					     A new store was built on South Cumberland Street and the
					firm continued there until taken over in 1929 by the Marshall-
					Wells Company.  Soon after the start of the Yukon gold rush a
					branch of the Marks, Clavet, Dobie Company was opened at Edmonton
					and Mr. Dobie managed that store for some years in the early
					1900's.  After 1929 Mr. Dobie retired from active business, but
					maintained an office and carried on a brokerage business.
					     Mr. Dobie was one of the first school pupils here, starting
					two or three years after the first class was organized.
					     He was married in 1905 to Dora Meikle, who was born in Port
					Arthur, [incorrect -- she was born in New Hamburg, Ont.] daughter
					of the late Mr. and Mrs. J.L. Meikle, pioneer residents here.
					There are five children: Dorothy, Mrs. Neil Fraser, Port Arthur,
					whose husband is overseas with the Canadian army; Russell, with
					the United States navy; William, with the Magnet Mining Company
					near Geraldton; Capt. Ted Dobie, with the R.C.A.M.C., overseas,
					and George, a theological student at McGill University, now in a
					mission field for the summer at St. George, near Saint John, N.B.
					Also surviving are two grandchildren; a brother, E.J.B. Dobie of
					Port Arthur; and two sisters, Miss Elizabeth Dobie of Port Arthur
					and Annie, Mrs. D.G. Sutherland of Boston Bar, B.C. Another
					sister, Miss Isabella Dobie, died in 1919.
					     H.B. Hardy, who was associated with J.C. Dobie in business
					for 30 years, said today: "It was my privilege and pleasure to
					have enjoyed a goodly measure of Mr. Dobie's acquaintance and
					friendship covering a period of 30 years, first as an employee
					and later as a partner in the firm of The Marks-Clavet-Dobie Co.,
					Ltd. I can bear testimony to the esteem and affection he was held
					in by the staff and executive of our firm -- always actuated by
					the highest motives such as few men have evoked. He was a man
					greatly admired and respected because of his sterling attributes
					and our city and district can ill-afford to lose the assistance
					of men of his outstanding calibre."
					He married Dora Lovell Meikle, married 27-Jun-1905 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada, born 22-Aug-1880 in New Hamburg, Ontario, Canada,, (daughter of John Lovell Meikle and Jeanne (Jennie) Milne), died 27-Mar-1963 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada, buried 30-Mar-1963 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada, (Riverside Cemetery).
				(D)	Edward James Biggings Dobie, (son of William Currie Dobie and Sarah Dorothy Coatsworth) born 20-Feb-1873 in Prince Arthur's Landing, Ontario, Canada,, died 2-Nov-1952 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada, buried 4-Nov-1952 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada,130 (Riverside Cemetery), census 1881 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada,100 (Age 8 years), census 1901 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada,101 (Age 27 years).
					Notes: "Edward Dobie" in birth record. Full name on death record of his infant son, Edward George Dobie, born & died in 1913. Name in obituary is "Biggings".
					Obituary of E.J.B. Dobie from the Port Arthur News Chronicle, November 3, 1952, from clipping sent me by Bill Martin of Port Arthur, October, 1997.
					
					E.J.B. Dobie, Well Known,
					Dies After Lengthy Career
					
					     A member of one of the best known pioneer families of Port Arthur, Edward James Biggings Dobie, of 69 Regent Street, died early Sunday morning in hospital.
					    Born in Port Arthur Feb. 20, 1873, Mr. Dobie had lived all his life here and, until his retirement in 1947, was a member of the firm of Bonin, Dobie, Jackson Ltd., real estate and insurance.
					    A quiet, unassuming man, Mr. Dobie had taken an active part in the life of St. Paul's United Church.  One of the last public appearances he made was to turn the sod for the Memorial Youth Centre.
					    Mr. Dobie had served on most of the boards of the church and numerous committees.  He was one of the oldest members, being the first child baptised in the original St. Paul's Church in August, 1873.
					    Mr. Dobie served several terms on the City council and was a member of the Board of Education for many years, as well as a member of the Court of Revision and Shuniah Lodge, A.F. and A.M., No. 287, Port Arthur Lodge, I.O.O.F., of the Kiwanis Club of Port Arthur-Fort William and a life member of the Port Arthur Liberal Association.
					    He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Dobie.  His father was magistrate of Port Arthur for many years.
					    Surviving are his wife, Althea, a son, John, of Ottawa, one daughter, Jean, Mrs. Milton Limbert of Parry Sound.  Both are here at present.  Two sisters, Miss Elizabeth Dobie of Port Arthur and Mrs. D.G. Sutherland, Vancouver, and one granddaughter also survive.
					    The body will rest at the chapel, 21 North Court Street, until Tuesday morning when it will be taken to St. Paul's United Church to lie in state until the time of the service at 2 p.m.  The service will be conducted by Rev. W.C. Mercer of St. Paul's and will be under auspices of Shuniah Lodge.  Burial will be in the family plot, Riverside Cemetery.
					He married Althea Dickson, married 23 Dec 1911 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, census (family) 1921 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada, (28 Carrie Street), born 30-Jun-1885 in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, (daughter of George Dickson and Jennie Ford), died 27-Feb-1974 in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, census 1901 in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, (Age 16 years), resided 1911 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada, (413 Ambrose Avenue).
					Althea: Notes: Name on 1901 census seems to be "Altha". Surname spelled "Dixon" on 1901 and 1911 census. Birth year had changed to 1889 by the 1911 census (Port Arthur).
					This letter is dated October 1, 1963 and was written by Althea (Dickson) Dobie to Annie (Dobie) Sutherland. A photocopy was sent me by Marilyn Clarke, grand-daughter of Annie Sutherland. Where the information given is wrong, I've put corrections in [square brackets].
					
					Dear Annie,
						First I will answer your questions.  When I cleaned out 16 Regent St. I saw no sign of anything like a crest.  Ed used to say that Coat was a little crazy on the family tree business.  So far as is known the Coatsworths were hardworking successful dairy farmers in Durham county in England. That is something to be proud of. [As far as is known, they were lead miners].
						Our dear Coat was constantly looking for cousins and how we would laugh when Ed would wind up the discussion by saying "Why for sure, he is a cousin -- his great-grandfather's dog ran across our great-grandfather's farm one day a hundred years ago."
						Referring to the Coatsworth relics in Gore Bay, they consist mainly of large heavy ledgers.  I asked Jean this summer if she ever saw these cousins since they left Elliot Lake.  It seems she hadn't.  Your first cousin Mary Ann Jackson Smith, over 80 when I saw her, had had several strokes and chances are that she has departed by this time.  Her daughter Mrs. Claridge who reminded me so of Liz, is very likely dashing around.  She appeared a highly competent, busy woman.  But I doubt if they would consider lending these ledgers.  They will probably be put into a museum there in Gore Bay.
						Your father William Currie, had four brothers and two sisters -- Robert [correct name was Russell], Joseph, David and James, Mary and Lizzie.  Their father's name was John David.
						When John David brought his family from Birkenhead in 1849, several of his brothers were already in Canada, but I haven't the foggiest notion their names. [According to W.C. Dobie's account of his trip over, John David Dobie came to Canada with his one brother William Currie Dobie, however some of their cousins had preceeded them by several years].
						John David was a stone mason and worked on many government buildings then being built in Ontario, mainly jails and courthouses, before taking up a farm at Owen Sound.  All this your father has told me many times. This is really all that I actually know.
						I was delighted to hear from you and news of George by way of his letter.  I saw them all of course at the time of Dora's death.  I don't think I have ever missed anyone so much as Dora -- we had been friends as well as sisters-in-law for more than 50 years with never a disagreement.
						Recently I've had a stay in hospital, for X-rays and to the intestinal indigestion which I have had for 20 years, as added gall bladder trouble and right now I'm trying to pamper both and find enough to eat which takes considerable doing.
						John who lives in Winnipeg was down for a night last week. He works in the Department of Industry and Commerce, in the Manitoba Gov't.
						Jean's children are healthy, happy kids. Martha the middle one does the worrying for the family.  John the boy soon eight-years old, is a happy child who goes ambling along his own cheerful way. They, like their father, are full of fun and always have a good joke to tell.  They were scarcely in the house this summer when they told me their latest, which, prehaps is after all, as funny as some of the stuff we hear on T.V.  "What was Snow White's husband's name"?  "Egg White"  and the punchline: "Pretty good yoke, eh?"
						They are a cheerful lot of good travellers, and I hated to see them go.
						I had also a two week visit from my youngest sister, another Jean.  Her husband after an illness of 6 years, died last February.  Her family are from and live in St. Thomas.  She is as buxom as I am scrawny.  I was nine years old when she was born and from that time she was my baby to bring up.  We had a great time.  She is a great goer, active in may things, drives his car like a veteran which she is, and plays bridge like a professional.  I hated to see her go too - but everything has an end it seems.
						I have another sister who has been talking of making me a visit, but it is getting late in the season, and she takes heavy colds, so I shouldn't be surprised if she postponed it.  She lives in our old home in St. Thomas which my father build more than 80 years ago - which is still substantial and livable with sound floors and walls.
						Well do I remember as a child getting off to bed Christmas Eve very quietly in case I should hear Santa Claus coming down the stove pipe in the upstairs hall, and Santa Claus time is coming up on us again. They seem to bring him out earlier every year. Several Christmases ago I went over with some young friends and their little girl to Simpson Sears to see Santa Claus.  He was the most bedraggled and weary Santa and looked as if he would collapse if he didn't soon get a sleep.  Two weeks before Christmas would surely be time enough but then I'm not running the business world just sitting in the side lines.
						Thank you for your letter.  I'm sorry not to be of more help with names.
						Bill's daughter Dora from Atikokan was in on Saturday - a handsome and agreeable girl of 16 and clever and full of life.  You would love her.
							Affectionately,
							Althea.
				(E)	Annie Louisa Dobie, (daughter of William Currie Dobie and Sarah Dorothy Coatsworth) born 5-Dec-1874 in Prince Arthur's Landing, Ontario, Canada, died 21-Feb-1971 in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada,, buried 23-Feb-1971 in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,139 census 1881 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada,100 (Age 6 years).
					Notes: Annie Dobie was brought up with the WOODSIDE family in B.C. after 1881.  She lived in Boston Bar, BC. in 1943 (see J.C. Dobie death notice); in Vancouver in 1961/2. She was with the Dobies in Port Arthur for the 1881 census (named Anne Louise) but gone by the 1891 census.  I met her in Vancouver when I was in the Navy, about 1962, when my uncle George Dobie took me to visit her.  Her marriage record states that she went by the Woodside surname but had not been legally adopted.  She died at Valley View Hospital, Coquitlam, BC.  Cremated.
					   In a letter dated Aug. 25, 1997, her grand-daughter, Marilynn Clarke, writes: "My grandmother was affectionately known by everyone as "Othermom".  She was generous to a fault and a wonderfully caring person.  I lived with her and my grandfather for a year after my mother died.  All that I am or ever hoped to be I owe to her.  In additiion to the year mentioned, I spent numerous summers with her and my grandfather.  Oh how I wish I'd paid more attention when I heard the oft-told stories of her early years.  I, like you, was always puzzled as to why my grandmother was sent to live with the Woodside family.  I know nothing about them but always got the impression that Othermom was very happy with them.  The story I heard many times about Othermom's stepmother was that she was very mean and quite abusive to her and my grandmother vowed that if she ever had any children she would spoil them. (She did).  She also said that no one realized at that time that her stepmother was mentally ill.  It was my understanding that she was institutionalized."
					She married Daniel Gunn Sutherland, married 13-Aug-1897 in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada,, born 5-May-1867 in Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada, (son of Alexander Sutherland and Jessie McLeod), born 5 May 1868 in Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada, died 25-Feb-1952 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, buried 28-Feb-1952 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,144 (Vancouver Crematorium), occupation Policeman & public works, occupation 1917 Bridge carpenter,143 military 12 Mar 1917 - 26 Mar 1919 Forestry Draft, CEF, 102nd Regiment, RWR.143
					Daniel: Notes: Marriage witnesses: Jennie Evans and George Borthwick, both of Kamloops, BC.
					Married by Rev. John Robson, by licence, Presbyterian. Occupation at marriage
					was "Provincial Constable", at death was "Superintendant Road Construction"
					(to 1942).  Residence at marriage: Lytton, BC.   Mother's name on marriage
					record: Mary or Marg., but on death record is Jessie McLeod, and this name
					confirmed by Marilynn (Mayes) Clarke. Died at Shaughnessy Hospital, Vancouver.
					Birth date on death certificate is March 5, 1867, but Marilyn Clarke in a letter dated 8 Oct., 1997, says the correct month is May.
					
					Note: Birth date given on the 1901 census is May 5, 1868. (BC, Yale (West/Ouest) l-6 Page 2).
					
					The obituary of D.G. Sutherland in undated & unidentified newspaper clipping supplied by Marilynn (Mayes) Clarke:
					
					Pioneer / Of Fraser / Passes
					     Daniel Gunn Sutherland, who came to British Columbia in 1888 and grew up with the development of the road and rail down the Fraser from Revelstoke to Vancouver, was buried Thursday in Vancouver.
					     Mr. Sutherland was 84.  He had worked as a boy in the CPR camps when the railway was pushed through to the coast and for years had served as a superintendent for the provincial department of Public Works.  During the first war he was a member of the Canadian Forestry Corps, serving two years in France.
					     He also served with the Provincial Police at Lytton, and it was while he was in the police, in 1899, that he married Annie Louise Dobie.
					     In 1908, he became a superintendent with the public works department, a job that was interrupted during the first war, and it was in the government service that he helped build bridges and docks at Golden, Woodwards Landing, Courtenay, Sayward, Mission, Salmon River and Hope.
					     He was also on the crew that built the first Kitsilano bridge across False Creek.
					     It was at his suggestion that the aerial ferry across the Fraser at Boston Bar was constructed.
					     When Mr. Sutherland first came to B.C., he recalled shortly before his death, in a Province Magazine article, he saw the Fraser at Lytton literally filled with salmon.  There were so many they could be seen a mile away and "looked like seaweed."
					     He was a member of Nicolas Lodge, A.F. & A.M. at Merrit.
					     Mr Sutherland is survived by his wife, a daughter, Doris, and a son, Gordon, all of 2429 East Twenty-seventh.
				(F)	Wilna Sydney Dobie, (daughter of William Currie Dobie and Sarah Dorothy Coatsworth) born 15-Jan-1878 in Prince Arthur's Landing, Ontario, Canada, died 1-Dec-1883, census 1881 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada,100 (Age 3 years).
					Notes: W.C. Dobie obituary, Port Arthur News Chronicle, Wed., Nov. 14, 1928, Pg. 1. gives Wilna's death date as 1 Jan. 1893, but Marilynn Clarke, in a letter of 8 Oct., 1997 says: "On the back of the picture (of Wilna) written in my grandmother's hand is the notation: My baby sister - Wilna Sydney Dobie - who was mothered by friends & died Dec. 1, 1883 at the age of 5 years and eleven months. My aunt Doris added the notation that she died of diptheria." Papers held by M. Clarke seem to indicate she lived in Portage La Prarie, MB. Wilna was still living with the Dobie family in Port Arthur at the time of the 1881 census.
			e.	Elizabeth Dobie, born 6 Mar 1842 in Liverpool,  Lancashire, England,95, christened 1 May 1842 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England,95 born 1 May 1844 in England, died 3-Jan-1922 in Sydenham, Grey, Ontario,148,,147 buried in Chatsworth, Grey County, Ontario, Canada,64,147 (Presbyterian Cemetery), immigrated 1849 to Canada from England.65 .
				Notes: Letter from Jacqueline Walker stated a birth date of 15-May-1844 in Canada, but location is wrong as the family didn't come to Canada until 1849. Birth date from LDS woud seem to be correct.
				October 2005 -- I viewed and photographed this gravestone in the Chatsworth cemetery. Birth date on the stone is 15 May 1844.
				Surname is spelled "McKissock" on her death record. Informant was her son, John A. McKissock.
				She married John McKessock, married 5 Apr 1866 in Chatsworth, Holland Township, Grey County, Ontario, Canada,, (see witness 4) born 19-Sep-1833 in Scotland, (son of J. McKessock and M. Somerville), died 28-Sep-1898 in Sydenham, Grey County, Ontario, Canada,149 (Cause of death was diabetes of 2 years' duration (per death record image).), buried in Chatsworth U.C. Cemetery, Grey County, Ontario, Canada,64 occupation Farmer.,149
				John: Notes: Marriage witness Wm. Rankin, Holland. M. by Rev. James Cameron of Chatsworth. Date on marriage cert. was 5 April 1866. Name was "John McKissock".
				(A)	Isabella Somerville McKessock, born 8-Jan-1867, died 29-Aug-1945.154 . She married Alexander Pringle Halliday, married 5-Nov-1890,154 born 13-Jul-1863, died 30-Nov-1926.155
					Alexander: Notes: Married by Rev. James McAlpine of Chatsworth.
				(B)	John Alexander (Jack) McKessock, born 14-Oct-1868 in Sydenham Township, Grey, Ontario, Canada,154 died 13-Jan-1949.154 .
					Notes: Married by Rev. J.A. Black of Hoath Head. "Jack" from Rebecca Ogden <bekogden@telus.net>.. Surname is spelled "McKessok" in the 1901 census (per Automatedgenealogy.com).
					He married Margaret Morrison, married 10-Jan-1900 in Stratham, Grey, Ontario, Canada,,154 born about 1866 in Sydenham Township, Grey, Ontario, Canada,156 (daughter of H. Morrison and Catherine Anderson), died 27-Oct-1951,154 resided 10 Jan 1900 in Sydenham Township, Grey, Ontario, Canada,156 (Per image of marriage record on familysearch.org.).
				(C)	William Joseph McKessock, born 5-Sep-1870.154 .
					Notes: Moved to Saskatchewan
				(D)	Mary Dobie McKessock, born 22-Nov-1872 in Sydenham Township, Grey County, Ontario, Canada,, died 18-Nov-1930.154 .
					Notes: Day of death is 17th November in Bruce Mines Spectator obit.  Mary was living as a lodger at the home of Thomas and Mary C. Buchanan in Thessalon, Ont. at the time of the 1901 census.
					She married Thomas Ballie Dunn, resided (family) 1911 in Galbraith Township, Algoma, Ontario, Canada,158 married 24 Dec 1902 in Sydenham Township, Grey County, Ontario, Canada,, (Con. 7, Lot 1), (see witness 5, 6) born 6 Sep 1870 in Ontario, Canada,158 (son of Alexander Balie Dunn and Frances Thompson), died 23-Feb-1942 in Alma Heights, Ontario, Canada, occupation 1901 Farm labourer, occupation 24 Dec 1902 Farmer,160 occupation 1911 Farmer,158 census 1911 in Galbraith Township, Algoma, Ontario, Canada.158
					Thomas: Notes: Lived in Thessalon, Ont. in 1949 (J.A. McKessock obituary).  "Baillie" is from sons Francis Crammond Dunn's and Alexander Dunn's birth records.
				(E)	Robert James McKessock, born 18-Jul-1876 in Bognor, Sydenham Township, Grey County, Ontario, Canada, died 26-Jan-1930.154 .
					Notes: Married by Rev. Anderson of Solina. Bognor birth location is from Kate Head, email of 1 Jan., 2005. (heads@kwic.com)
					He married Mabel Lillian May Pascoe, married 11-Apr-1903 in Solina, Durham County, Ontario, Canada,,154 born 10-Nov-1875 in Solina, Durham County, Ontario, Canada, died 29-Jun-1960 in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.166
				(F)	George Dobie McKessock, born 13-Feb-1879 in Sydenham Township, Grey County, Ontario, Canada, died 29-Apr-1879.154 .
				(G)	George Dobie McKessock, born 1-May-1880 in Sydenham Township, Grey County, Ontario, Canada, died 22-Sep-1952 in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada, buried 25-Sep-1952 in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, (Forest Lawn Cemetery), occupation Service Station owner. .
					Notes: Residence at time of death was 224 E. 6th Ave., New Westminster. Informant's name was Joseph (illegible) at same address.  Birthplace given in death record is "Massie, Ont.".
					He married Margaret Agnes Greenbank, married about 1909 in Wawota, Ontario, Canada, born 29 Oct 1887 in North West Territories, Canada, (Sec 28, Twp 11,  Rge 33, W1.) (daughter of John Greenbank and Cicilia Bonar), died 20 Apr 1980 in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada,,173 (Usual residence before death: 7195 Canada Way, Burnaby, BC. (per death record image).
					Place of death: Canada Way Personal Care, Burnaby, BC.), buried 24 Apr 1980 in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada,173 (Forest Lawn Memorial Park.).
				(H)	Elizabeth Helen McKessock, born 2-Sep-1882 in Sydenham Township, Grey County, Ontario, Canada, died in Glenside, Saskatchewan, Canada.159 . She married John T. Dunlop, married 25-Dec-1901.154
					John: Notes: Married by Rev. J.A. Black of Hoath Head.
				(I)	Andrew Somerville McKessock, born 8-May-1884 in Sydenham Township, Grey County, Ontario, Canada. .
					Notes: Lived in Abernethy, Saskatchewan in 1949 (J.A. McKessock obituary).
			f.	Alexander Russell Dobie, born circa 1847 in Liverpool, England, died 3 Nov 1917 in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, United States,, occupation Clerk, turnkey, merchant, immigrated 1849 to Canada from England.65 .
				Notes: Lived in Twp of Sullivan when married. Witnesses: Joseph Dobie, Sullivan; Mary Ann Cook, Sullivan. Married by N.D. McDiarmid, Methodist. Shown as widowed in 1881 census. Children Isabella and John not living with family in 1891 census, even though they were 10 & 13 years old.
				He married (1) Caroline Frances Cook, married 29-Jan-1875 in Sullivan Twp., Grey County, Ontario, Canada,, (Married by N.A. McDairmid, methodist minister), born about 1848,181 (daughter of Robert Cook and Hannah Darling), born about 1854 in Canada,181 died 30 Aug 1880 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada.
				Caroline: Notes: Caroline had died by the time of the 1881 census.
				He married (2) Alice Ann Wood, married 30-Aug-1883 in Lefroy, Algoma, Ontario, Canada,, (see witness 7, 8) born about 1860 in Ashfield (now Amberley) Huron County, Ontario, Canada,183,,184 (daughter of William Wood or Woods and Mary Martha Phillips).
				Alice: Notes: Marriage witnesses: Albert Moore & Etta Wood; Lefroy, Algoma. Married by George H. Kenny. Alice's religion listed as evangelist.  Lefroy is about half way between Bradford & Barrie, just east of Hwy. 11, near shore of southern end of Lake Simcoe.
				(A)	Robert Cook Dobie, (son of Alexander Russell Dobie and Caroline Frances Cook) born 17-Nov-1875 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, died 10-Nov-1945 in Blind River, Ontario, Canada, buried in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada, (Little Rapids Cemetery), occupation Clerk.
					Notes: Marriage witnesses: A.R. Code, Maria Netterfield(?), Thessalon. Married by W.C. Armstrong.
					He married Agnes Ella Thomson, married 28-Oct-1897 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada, born 29-Aug-1872 in East Wawanosh Township, Huron County, Ontario, Canada, (daughter of William Thomson and Elizabeth McHue), died about 1965, buried in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada, (Little Rapids Cemetery).
					Agnes: Notes: Name is "Egnes" in marriage certificate. Residence at birth was Lot E-1/2 33, Con. 8, E. Wawanosh Twp.
				(B)	Isabella Russell Dobie, (daughter of Alexander Russell Dobie and Caroline Frances Cook) born 5-Dec-1877 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, died 3-Feb-1947 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, (Women's College Hospital), buried 6-Feb-1947 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada,194 (Greenwood Cemetery), occupation Teacher.84 . She married (1) William Leroy McMurchy, married 27-Apr-1904 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada,,182 born __-___-1878 in Holland Township, Ontario, Canada,37 (son of Archie McMurchy and Mary Jane Liddle), died 24 Dec 1906 in Grey County, Ontario, Canada,182 occupation Millwright, resided 1901 in Dunwich, Elgin (West), Ontario, Canada.182
					William: Notes: Marriage witnesses: John A. Dobie, Mary Baines, Owen Sound. M. by Rev. G.R. Turk.
					She married (2) Robert Rankin, married about 1932.194
				(C)	John Alexander Dobie, (son of Alexander Russell Dobie and Caroline Frances Cook) born 3-Feb-1880 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, died 3-Oct-1913 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada. .
					Notes: Died of typhoid fever.
				(D)	Mary Maude Lansdowne Dobie, (daughter of Alexander Russell Dobie and Alice Ann Wood) born 30-Apr-1884 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada. .
					Notes: Living in Edmonton, AB in 1947 (sister Isabella's obituary).
					She married unknown Ferris.
				(E)	Harry Wood Dobie, (son of Alexander Russell Dobie and Alice Ann Wood) born 27-Feb-1886 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada, occupation Scaler (?).
					Notes: Marriage witnesses: Duncan Allieson, Belgren (?) Ont.; Wm. C.C. Scott (?), Sault Ste. Marie. M. by E.E. Scott, Methodist.
					He married May Jones, married 21-Dec-1908 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, (daughter of James Jones and Harriet Rapin).
				(F)	Alice Minerva Dobie, (daughter of Alexander Russell Dobie and Alice Ann Wood) born 30-Dec-1887 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada. .
					Notes: Living in Sault Ste. Marie in 1947, unmarried (sister Isabella's obituary).
				(G)	Frank Pringle Dobie, (son of Alexander Russell Dobie and Alice Ann Wood) born 26-Jan-1894 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada, died 22-Aug-1894 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada. .
			g.	Joseph Brydon Dobie, born 9-Feb-1850 in Glencoe or Dunwich, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada,, died 24-Jul-1940 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada,205 occupation Farmer, merchant.
				Notes: Married at "Keady in Derby". Witnesses Mary Helen Stewart & Sarah Harbottle, both of Derby. M. by Rev. John Stewart. Lived at Lot 13, Con. 2, Sullivan Twp.
				This is the obituary of Joseph Brydon Dobie, transcribed and emailed to me by Jay A. Nellis <dartman@sinnfree.sinnfree.org>, Sept. 14, 1998.
				
				Chesley Enterprise, August 1, 1940
				
				Late Joseph Dobie, Sullivan Ex-Reeve
				
				Many old friends from Sullivan as well as neighbors and friends from
				Owen Sound and district, attended the funeral at Owen Sound last Friday
				afternoon of Mr. Joseph Dobie, ex-reeve of Sullivan, who passed away
				last Wednesday morning. Rev F.G. Hornsby conducted the obsequies, and
				the casket bearers were Messrs. Wesley Carson, Robert Halliday, Malcolm
				Mitchell, Robert Rankin, William McDonald and R.L. Aitcheson. Interment
				was in Greenwood cemetery. The late Mr. Dobie celebrated his 90th
				birthday on February 9, and had been up and around until suffering a
				fall a few weeks ago. He was born in Dunwich, Elgin County, in 1850,
				both his parents being natives of Dumfries, Scotland, and coming to
				Elgin county in 1849.  The father being a stone mason, the family lived
				in Toronto, Whitby and other places where the father was employed, and
				in 1854 they moved to Chatsworth, where a relative was located, and they
				took up land on Lot 16, Con. 13, Sullivan, and where Joseph Dobie made
				his home for 56 years. The late Mr. Dobie was an authority on the
				pioneer life of Sullivan township, as well as Grey county. He remembered
				Owen Sound when it was only a little village on the Sydenham. He had a
				store of incomparable anecdotes about the early days and customs, the
				settlers and the slow but steady growth of city and county. In 1885 Mr.
				Dobie was elected to the township council and served for two years. In
				1888 he rented his farm and for four years resided at Thessalon. In 1892
				he returned to the farm and in 1895 was elected deputy reeve and again
				in 1912 and 1913 he filled the same post. In 1916 he became reeve. He
				also served on the board of the public school and the high school of
				Chatsworth for three terms. The late Mr. Dobie was married in 1886 to
				Miss Alice Ramage, daughter of one of the early families of the
				district. In the fall of 1920 they sold the farm and moved to Owen
				Sound, where they resided ever since. Besides his bereaved widow, a
				family of six children mourn. Two predeceased him, the eldest son,
				Captain J. Milton Dobie of the 147th Grey Battalion, who was promoted
				from lieutenant to captain on the field, who was killed at the battle of
				Arras on August 28, 1918, and Florence (Mrs. W.H. Murphy) who died July
				24, 1923. Mr. Dobie's death occurred on the 17th anniversary of his
				daughter's death. Surviving are: Ethel, Mrs. Gregor McDonald, of Leader,
				Sask., who was in attendance upon her father at his passing; Howard, of
				Vancouver, B.C.; Isabella (Mrs. Russell Galbraith) Chatsworth, Victor of
				Desboro, and Misses Violet and Margaret at home.
				He married Jessie Alice Ramage, married 21-Oct-1886 in Keady, Ontario, Canada, born 4-Jan-1865 in Strathavon, Grey County, Ontario, Canada, (daughter of Thomas Howard Ramage and Janet Amanda Elliot), died 23-Mar-1948 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada.208
				(A)	John Milton Russell Dobie, Capt., born 6-Dec-1887 in Sullivan Twp., Grey County, Ontario, Canada,, died 28-Aug-1918 in Boiry, France,,,210, (Killed in action. Body exhumed from about 1,000 yards south-east of Boiry, 7-1/2 miles east-south-east of Arras.), buried in Haucourt, France,,213 (Buried in Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery; Plot 6, Row G, Grave 24), occupation Journalist, soldier,210 military 15 Dec 1915 - 28 Aug 1918 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles.210,213 .
					Notes: Residence when born was Lot 13, Con 2, Sullivan Twp.
					Obituary of John Milton Russell Dobie, Owen Sound Sun, Friday, Sept. 6, 1918.
					
					Lieut. J. Milton Dobie
					Makes Supreme Sacrifice
					
					     An official telegram yesterday conveyed the sad intelligence of
					the death in action of one of Owen Sound's finest young men, Lieut. J.
					Milton Dobie, who for several years prior to his enlistment was
					Associate Editor of The Sun.  The telegram, which was received by his
					parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Dobie, of Chatsworth, briefly stated
					that he had been killed in action on August 28th.  The news brought
					sorrow to a wide circle of friends both in Owen Sound and his home
					village of Chatsworth, and many were the expressions of sincere regret
					that were heard yesterday from citizens in general.
					     Lieut. Dobie's death in action follows closely on a similar fate
					that befell two of his most initmate friends.  Both Corp. John D.
					Doherty and Lieut. Tom Allen, who were recently reported to have died
					in action were his closest associates.  Lieut. Dobie was a member of
					the First Greys and he was one of the most popular and efficient
					officers of that splendid unit.  For about 14 months he has been
					serving in France with the 4th C.M.R. Battalion and was through a
					great deal of heavy fighting.
					     Lieut. J. Milton Dobie was the eldest son of Mr. Joseph B. Dobie,
					ex-reeve of Sullivan, and Mrs. Dobie, and he was born 30 years ago on
					their farm, a short distance from Chatsworth.  He received his early
					education at the Chatsworth public school.  Following this he spent
					several summers with his uncle, Mr. --------- (sic) Dobie, of
					Thessalon, in long surveying trips through New Ontario.  About 1909
					Lt. Dobie entered the Owen Sound Collegiate Institute, where he was a
					student for nearly three years.  In Sept., 1912, he joined the
					editorial staff of The Sun where as Associate Editor of this paper he
					rendered excellent service.  In the summer of 1915, Lieut. Dobie spent
					six weeks at Camp Niagara and took out his commission.  When the 147th
					Battalion was formed he was one of the first to offer himself and in
					December, 1915, joined the battalion.  He was actively engaged in the
					organization and training of the battalion, being in charge of a
					platoon in the late Capt. Jack Campbell's company, going overseas in
					November, 1916.  Lieut. Dobie was retained in England until June,
					1917, when he joined the 4th C.M.R. batallion in France, and was
					identified with that unit until his death.
					     In the death of Lieut. Dobie Owen Sound suffers a very great
					loss.  He was a young man who held the highest ideals, and who led an
					exemplary life.  "Milt." Dobie, as he was popularly known, was quiet
					and unassuming in his manner.  He was a real man -- square and above
					board -- always honourable and fair.  These splendid characteristics,
					coupled with an unfailing good mature, won for him the respect and
					confidence of a host of sincere friends.
					     [two paragraphs omitted]
					     Besides his sorrowing parents, Lt. Dobie is survived by two
					brothers, Pte. Howard Dobie, in training in England, and Pte. Victor
					Dobie, at present at home on leave; also five sisters, Ethel, at home;
					Isabella, teaching at Shouldice school; Florence, at home; Violet,
					teaching at S.S. No. 10, Holland; and Margaret at home.  In religion
					Lieut. Dobie was a Presbyterian, being a member of Division Street
					Church, and an active member of the Choir and Young People's Society.
					He was also a valued member of the Orpheus Chorus and was an
					Oddfellow.
					     [14 inches of official tributes omitted] Photograph was included
					with article.
					
					Another clipping from the Owen Sound? paper, hand-dated 1918, says:
					
					GIVEN RANK OF CAPTAIN ON AUG. 12.
					Owen Sound Officer Recently Reported Killed in Action, Had Received Promotion
					     Word has been received here that Lieut. Milton Dobie had been made a company commander in the battalion with which he was serving, with the rank of captain, and that he took command on August 12th, only a short time before he was killed in action.
				(B)	Mary Ethel Dobie, born 8-Dec-1889 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada, died 22-Oct-1945 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada,90 buried in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, (Greenwood Cemetery), occupation Teacher.216 .
					Notes: This is the obituary of Mary Ethel Dobie, probably from the Owen Sound newspaper.
					
					     Many friends in this city and district, as well as many at Leader, Sask., where she formerly resided, will learn with deep regret of the death of Mrs. Gregor MacDonald, which occurred on Sunday morning at the hospital here, where she had been a patient for the past two months.  Mrs. MacDonald and her husband came East to make their home two months ago.  A few days after their arrival, Mr. MacDonald died suddenly.  His wife's death followed after a two-month interval, during which she had been seriously ill, and their only child, Florence Dobie MacDonald, aged 5, is thus left an orphan.
					     Deceased, whose maiden name was Mary Ethel Dobie, was born at Thessalon, Ont., a daughter of Mrs. Alice Dobie of this city and the late Joseph Dobie.  She came to this district with her parents when she was a child of two, attended Collegiate and the Northern Business College here, trained as a teacher at the Stratford Normal School and taught at Fort William, Port Arthur and Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.  Eighteen years ago she was united in marriage to Gregor MacDonald, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Archie MacDonald of Sullivan Township.  They made their home at Leader, Sask., until coming East this past summer.
					     Besides her little daughter and her mother, deceased leaves to mourn two brothers, J. Victor Dobie of Desboro and Howard Dobie in the Yukon, and three sisters, Isabel, Mrs. Russell Galbraith of Chatsworth, Miss Violet Dobie of Owen Sound and Miss Margaret Dobie of Toronto.  A brother, Capt. Milton Dobie, was killed overseas in the First Great War and a sister, Florence, Mrs. W. H. Murphy, passed away 22 years ago.
					     While residing at Leader, Sask., deceased attended the United Church there.
					She married Gregor MacDonald, married 14 Jul 1928 in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada,, born 2 Jul 1887 in Sullivan Township, Grey County, Ontario, Canada,217,218 (son of Archibald MacDonald and Ann MacGregor), died 20 Aug 1945 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada.217,218
				(C)	Thomas Howard Dobie, born 9-Apr-1892 in Sullivan Township, Grey County, Ontario, Canada, died 24 Nov 1981 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.217, .
					Notes: Lived in Victoria in 1972 (sister Isabella's obit.) in Vancouver in 1976 (sister Margaret's obit).
				(D)	Isabella Elliot Dobie, born 1-Mar-1894 in Sullivan Township, Grey County, Ontario, Canada, died 22 Jan 1972 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada,217, occupation Teacher.216 .
					Notes: Percy Dobie papers say "Box 914, Chatsworth, Ont."  Obituary says she taught in Keewatin, Port Arthur and Sault Ste. Marie.
					She married William James Russell Galbraith, married 21-Jul-1928 in Chatsworth, Ontario, Canada,,217 born 9 Sep 1888 in Holland Township., Grey County, Ontario, Canada,217 died 20 Jan 1976 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada.217,208
				(E)	Joseph Victor Dobie, born 27-Jan-1896 in Sullivan Township, Grey County, Ontario, Canada, died 28-Jul-1977 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada. .
					Notes: Lived in Desboro Ont. (near Chatsworth) in 1972 (sister Isabella's obit.).
					He married Helen Lorna Tindale, married 10-Oct-1925 in Chatsworth, Ontario, Canada,208 born about 1895,218 (daughter of H. B. Tindale and --?--), died 20-Jul-1980 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada,208 buried __-Jul-1980 in Chatsworth, Grey County, Ontario, Canada,, (Shilo Cemetery).
				(F)	Florence Ramage Dobie, born 8-Feb-1898 in Sullivan Township, Grey County, Ontario, Canada, died 25-Jul-1923 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, buried in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada (Greenwood Cemetery).  She married William Henry (Harry) Murphy, married 21 Oct 1922 in Owen Sound, Grey, Ontario, Canada,206,218 born 1889 in Owen Sound, Grey, Ontario, Canada,218,217,206 (son of Matthew Murphy and Flora Currie), died 1955,217 occupation 1922 Druggist.206
				(G)	Violet Amanda Dobie, born 14-Jun-1899 in Sullivan Township, Grey County, Ontario, Canada, died 23-Dec-1953 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, occupation Teacher, bank worker. .
					Notes: "Amanda" from Lois Richardson, e-mail of April 12, 1996.
				(H)	Margaret Evelyn Dobie, born 1904 in Sullivan Township, Grey County, Ontario, Canada,217, died 6-Feb-1976 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada.,217 .
					Notes: Unmarried.  Lois Richardson had 1901 as birth year.
			h.	James Barnes Dobie, born 20-Jul-1852 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, died __-Feb-1938 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, buried in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada, (Little Rapids Cemetery), occupation Merchant, resided 1877 in Bruce Mines, Ontario, Canada, census 1881 in Thessalon, Algoma, Ontario, Canada. .
				Notes: Canadian Almanac 1875 lists J.B. Dobie as Postmaster of Bruce Mines, Ont. Lived in Sudbury, Ont. in 1928 (W.C. Dobie death notice). NOTE -- check marriage record for number.
				He married Mary Caroline Lobb, married 18-Sep-1877 in Bruce Mines, Ontario, Canada,,238 (see witness 9, 10) born 31-May-1854 in Bruce Mines, Ontario, Canada, (daughter of Samuel Lobb and Ellen Trainor), died 25-Oct-1920 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada, buried 28-Oct-1920 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada, (Little Rapids Cemetery), resided 1877 in Prince Arthur's Landing, Ontario, Canada,238 census 1881 in Thessalon, Algoma, Ontario, Canada.
				(A)	James Samuel Dobie, born 15-Oct-1873 in Bruce Mines, Ontario, Canada, baptized 10-Jun-1874 in Bruce Mines, Ontario, Canada, died 28-Oct-1942 in Blind River, Ontario, Canada, buried 31-Oct-1942 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada, (Little Rapids Cemetery), occupation Civil engineer, surveyor, census 1881 in Thessalon, Algoma, Ontario, Canada, (Age 7 years).
					Notes: Marriage witnesses: George Graham, Gertrude Smedley. Married by I Odery, Methodist.  Was a Dominion Land Surveyor. Dobie Township in Rainy River District was named after him. Note reference in 1987 Dobie Connection, Pg. 4.
					This is the text of the obituary of J.S. Dobie which appeared on the front
					page of the Bruce Mines Spectator, Thursday, Nov. 5, 1942.  It took up the
					full left-hand column plus about four more inches plus a photograph.  A
					photocopy was sent to me on March 9, 1995 by Mr. Merritt Strum of Bruce Mines,
					Ont.
					---
					OBITUARY -- JAMES SAMUEL DOBIE -- The sudden passing at Blind River, Wednesday
					evening, October 28th, 1942, of James Samuel Dobie, B.A.Sc, O.L.S, D.L.S, has
					taken from the north one of its most outstanding figures.  His loss has left a
					vacancy which will be felt not only in his immediate community but throughout
					the whole north country to which he gave close to half a century of untiring
					devotion.
					     Mr. Dobie was born in Bruce Mines the eldest son of James Barnes Dobie
					and Mary Caroline Lobb.  He spent his early childhood in Bruce Mines, coming
					to Thessalon about 1878 where his father's business interests in Marks, Dobie
					& Co., were located.  He was educated at the Owen Sound Collegiate and
					received his degree of Bachelor of Applied Science in 1896 from the University
					of Toronto.
					     Immediately upon graduation, Mr. Dobie took up the work of surveying and
					his first assignment took him to the Province of Quebec in connection with the
					Beauharnois Deep Waterways project.  In 1898 his marriage to Miss Esther Maude
					Smedley of Toronto, took place.  Immediately after, he removed to Port Arthur
					where he was located for two years and it was while there that he qualified as
					an Ontario Land Surveyor.
					     Mr Dobie's life work was spent in Ontario with the exception of about a
					year and a half when in 1905 he was made a Dominion Land Surveyor and
					appointed Director of Surveys for the newly formed Province of Saskatchewan.
					Since his return to Ontario in 1907 his work has carried him from boundary to
					boundary through every important chain of lakes and rivers from James Bay to
					the Great Lakes.  The Dobie base line in Patricia, run in 1919, is a monument
					to his name.  Countless lakes and islands hitherto unexplored and uncharted
					were first recorded and named by him.  For about eight or nine years his work
					covered the western part of Ontario.  During that time he ran a practically
					continuous traverse line following the course of the Albany River and
					stretching from the Manitoba Boundary in James Bay.  In 1915 and 1916 he
					surveyed the islands of Lake Huron from Bruce Mines to Little Current.  In
					1930 and 1931 he mapped the islands along the north shore of Lake Superior.
					     But Mr. Dobie's associations were not confined to the forests, streams
					and lakes of our land -- throughout his whole life he displayed deeply human
					interests in all with whom he came in contact.  The relationships of mutual
					respect and loyalty between him and the men he worked with are a lasting
					tribute.  Enduring friendships were formed and in some cases the same men were
					members of Mr. Dobie's party for over twenty years.
					     A recent manifestation of his deep sense of community welfare was his
					work and association with the Canadian Red Cross Society when the new
					Thessalon Hospital was built.  He was for many years a member of the Dyment
					Lodge, A.F. and A.M., and active on the Thessalon Board of Trade.  Mr. Dobie's
					faith and devotion to the church, of which he was clerk of the session, was
					both a great support to its work and a source of deep satisfaction to himself.
					 His life as a man and as a citizen is not only an inspiration to those coming
					after him but a challenge to all who would see the North Country filling its
					high destiny in the development of the human and natural resources of Canada.
					     Mr. Dobie is survived by his wife and five daughters: Mrs. David Munroe
					of Ormstown, Quebec, Mrs. A. W. Derby of Noranda, Mrs. J. M. Keith of
					Montreal, Mrs. John Fullerton of Thessalon, and Mrs. D. R. Wilson of Timmins,
					Ont., by five grandchildren, by two sisters, Mrs. John McEachern of Sudbury
					and Mrs. Fred R. Hutchison of Huntingdon, Pa., and three brothers, Mr. Draper
					Dobie of Port Colborne, Mr. Joseph Dobie of Bourlamaque, and Mr. Norman Dobie,
					Debert, N.S.
					*   *    *
					     The funeral service was held in Zion United Church, on Saturday, October
					31st.  The minister in charge, Rev. R. W. Beveridge, said in part: (several
					inches of text omited here)
					     Honorary pall bearers were: Mr. D. J. Sandie, Dr. J. M. Robb, Mr. F. W.
					Rickaby, Mr. A. A. Burk, Mr. Donald McKay, Mr. Bamagesic, Mr. A. Grigg, Joseph
					Hicks.  The pall bearers were: Mr. Wilfred St. John, Mr. F. H. Cavanagh, Mr.
					William Yates, Mr. Albert Thomson, Mr. J. O. Coulter, Mr. F. A. Clement, Mr.
					Jas. Fullerton.
					     The out-of-town relatives who attended the funeral were, Mrs. David
					Munroe, Dr. and Mrs. A. W. Derby, Mrs. J. M. Keith, Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Wilson,
					Mr. Draper Dobie, Mrs. J. A. McEachern, Mr. Joseph Dobie, Dr. and Mrs. Fred R.
					Hutchison, Miss Alice Dobie, Mr. Fred Marks.  Interment took place at the
					Little Rapids Cemetery.
					He married Esther Maude Smedley, married 26-Oct-1898 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, born 18-Feb-1877, (daughter of Charles Smedley and Esther Graham), died about 1958,191 buried in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada, (Little Rapids Cemetery).
				(B)	John Draper Dobie, born 8-Mar-1877 in Bruce Mines, Ontario, Canada, died 20-Mar-1946 in Clearwater, Florida, United States, occupation Auditor, census 1881 in Thessalon, Algoma, Ontario, Canada, (Age 4 years.), resided 1941 in Lorraine, Ontario, Canada. .
					Notes: Marriage witnesses: F.G. Coy, Anita Fenton, St. Catharines. M by Herbert Lee, Methodist. John McEachern says "no issue".
					He married (1) Jessie Lucilla Fenton, married 23-Apr-1902 in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, divorced 23 Oct 1941 in Ontario, Canada,256 born __-___-1873 in Brooklyn, New York, United States,31 (daughter of Solomon Fenton and Ellen Palmer).  He married (2) Violette Tschudin, married 10 Nov 1941 in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States,256 born about 1895 in Lausanne, Switzerland,256 (daughter of Ernest Barriere and Emma Oulevay), resided 1941 in Lorraine, Ontario, Canada.256
				(C)	Ellen Isabelle (Nell) Dobie, born 22-Jan-1879 in Bruce Mines, Ontario, Canada, died 25-Nov-1920 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada, buried 27-Nov-1920 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada,259 (Little Rapids Cemetery), census 1881 in Thessalon, Algoma, Ontario, Canada, (Age 2 years.).
					Notes: Listed as "post mistress" in 1901 census, Thessalon, Ont. Second name spelled "Isabel" on birth record, "Isabelle" on tombstone (per John McEachern), who also says "no issue".
					She married James Anton Town, married 31-Oct-1906 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada, born 22-Sep-1882 in Orillia, Ontario, Canada, (son of William Henry Town and Mary Ann Tiffin), occupation Merchant.
					James: Notes: Marriage witnesses: Lorne Fowler, Sudbury; M. Tina Dobie, Thessalon. M. by Rev. A.N. St. John, Methodist.
				(D)	Frederick Russell Egerton Dobie, born 2-Jan-1881 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada,, died 7-May-1916 in Belgium,,264 buried in Belgium, (Maple Copse Cemetery), occupation Clerk in General store, census 1881 in Thessalon, Algoma, Ontario, Canada, (Age 3 months.), military 21 Jun 1915 - 7 May 1916 P.P.C.L.I.264 .
					Notes: "Russell Egerton" from back of photo provided by John McEachren, June/97.
				(E)	Mary Tina Dobie, born 29-Sep-1883 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada, died 6-Mar-1954 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. . She married John Allan McEachern, married 22-Jan-1913 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada, born __-___-1878, (son of Allan McEachern and Margaret Brown), died 2-Jan-1938, occupation Mine promoter.
					John: Notes: Marriage witnesses: Walter McGuine(?), Thessalon; Minna Dobie, Roosevelt(?) Hospital, New York, NY.; Minister: Howard H. Eaton, Thessalon. Surname is spelled "McEachren" and "McEachern" in marriage documents.
				(F)	Joseph Beecher Dobie, born 25-Jun-1885 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada, died __-Apr-1954 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada,269 occupation Prospector. .
					Notes: "Beecher" from back of photograph provided by John McEachren, June/97. Obituary states he died on a Sunday, making it April 4th, 11th, 18th or 25th. Birth date of 11-July-1885 given on 1901 census (Thessalon) and in obit.
					This is the obituary of Joseph Beecher Dobie, as published in the Sudbury Daily Star, April, 1954. Photocopy sent me July, 1997 by John McEachern.
					
					Developer of Thessalon
					Dies Following Stroke
					(Special to The Sudbury Star)
					
					       THESSALON--A man who had played an outstanding part in the development of not only the District of Algoma, but the whole of Northern Ontario, is dead.
					       Joseph Dobie, who would have marked his 69th birthday in July, died in the Thessalon Red Cross Hospital Sunday morning, the aftermath of a stroke.
					       The man who claimed the distinction of being the area's oldest living person to claim Thessalon birth, succumbed to his illness just one month after the death of his sister, the late Mrs. John A. McEachern, of Sudbury, who died in Toronto on March 6.
					       Joseph Dobie, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. James B. Dobie, was born here July 11, 1885.  He grew up in Thessalon and following his graduation from the local public school, he enrolled in Upper Canada College, Toronto, where his secondary school education was acquired.
					       In 1914, he shared with another local man, Milton Kinsley, the distinction of being the first Thessalon volunteers to join the Canadian Army in the first world conflict. He had four years of overseas duty.
					       Upon his return from England in 1919, he took up prospecting, a life which he followed religiously for many years.  Working with his brother, the late James S. Dobie, he travelled to every corner of the northern portion of the province.  In 1919, the brothers ran a continuous traverse line following the course of the Albany River from the Manitoba boundary to Hudson's and James Bay, over to the Quebec boundary.
					       In later years the late Mr. Dobie was employed with various Northern Ontario mines, including the Dome, in the Porcupine area and simultaneously, continued his prospecting career.  For the past year he had been in the employ of the McFadden Lumber Company.
					       The late Mr. Dobie is survived by one sister, Mrs. F. R. Hutchinson, of Huntington, Penn., one brother, Norman Dobie, of Sudbury and numerous nieces and nephews.
					       The body will be at rest at the home of his niece, Mrs. John A. Fullerton and Mr. Fullerton, from Tuesday afternoon until Wednesday afternoon, when the funeral service will take place at Zion United Church, here.
				(G)	Minna Kathleen Dobie, born 1-Aug-1890 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada, occupation Nurse, died 16 Dec 1960 in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States. .
					Notes: "Minna" spelling from marriage record. Marriage witnesses: Norman H. Dobie and J. B. Dobie, both of Thessalon. Married by Joseph Denny, Methodist.
					She married Fred Rudy Hutchison, married 18-Jul-1916 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada, born 3 Nov 1886 in Alexandria, Pennsylvania, United States,,277 (son of George R. Hutchison and Mary E. Piper), occupation Medical doctor,276,277 died 20 Dec 1967 in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States.277
					Fred: Notes: Lived in Huntingdon, Pa., USA in 1942 (J.S. Dobie obit, Bruce Mines Spectator, Nov. 5, 1942). "Hutchison" spelling in marriage record.
				(H)	Herbert Edmund Dobie, born 19-Apr-1893 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada. .
					Notes: Possibly a twin of Norman who died young.
				(I)	Norman Herbert Dobie, born 19-Apr-1893 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada, died 4-Jan-1962. .
					Notes: Ontario birth record #001579-93 (MS 929  Reel 114) gives the name of "Herbert Edmund".
					He married Ellen Elizabeth Graham, married __-___-____, born 1-Jul-1898 in Spragge, Lewis Twp., ON,282 died 27-Oct-1978 in Meaford, ON.282
					Ellen: Notes: Surname from John McEachern, "Elizabeth" from Jay Nellis.
					This obituary was emailed by Jay A. Nellis, October, 1997.
					
					MRS. ELLEN ELIZABETH DOBIE
					Mrs. Ellen Elizabeth Dobie passed away at her residence in Meaford on
					Friday, October 27th, 1978, in her 81st year. Mrs. Dobie was born July
					1, 1898 in Spragge, Lewis Township. She married Norman Herbert Dobie in
					Thessalon 60 years ago, and he predeceased her on January 4, 1962. She
					came from Sudbury 9 years ago to reside in Meaford. Mrs. Dobie devoted
					her life to her family. She is survived by sons Norman of Sault Ste.
					Marie, Donald of Toronto and Jerry of Meaford. She is also survived by
					daughters Mrs. Barbara McCarron of Malton, Mrs. Gay Lemaitre of
					Scarborough, and Mrs. Betty Ogloff of Toronto. There are 15
					grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Also survived by two
					sisters, Mrs. Mable Baxter of Sault Ste. Marie and Mrs. Lila Towle of
					Orilla. The funeral service was conducted at the Ferguson Funeral Home
					in Meaford on Monday, October 30th at 2 p.m. Rev. William Rowles
					officiated. Pallbearers were Messrs. Ed Besworth, Dr. David Robinson,
					Barry Jacks, Wally McCarron, Frank Lemaitre, and Terry Lemaitre.
					Interment at Lakeview Cemetery.
					
				(J)	Claude Salisbury Dobie, born 6-Nov-1895 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada. .
					Notes: Not listed in 1901 census (Thessalon). Ontario birth record #001475-96, with "Norman Claude" crossed out, gives birth date of 15-Nov-1896.  John McEachern says "died in infancy". Mis-transcribed on familysearch as "Dobic".
			i.	Mary Currie Dobie, born 22 Jul 1854 in Ontario, Canada, born 15-Aug-1854 in Ontario, Canada, died 10 Apr 1934 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada,285, buried 12 Apr 1934 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada,,285 (Little Rapids Cemetery).
				Notes: Lived in Thessalon in 1928 (W.C.Dobie obituary). Birth date of 15 Aug 1857 given on 1901 census (Thessalon), but age stated as 34 on marriage record, making birth year 1854/55. John McEachern states her birth year as 1854.
				She married Thomas Buchanan, married 3-Sep-1889 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada, born 11-Dec-1858 in Ontario, Canada, (son of Thomas Buchanan and Mary Jane Warnock), born 16 Dec 1858 in Ontario, Canada, died 18 Mar 1932 in Thessalon, Algoma, Ontario, Canada,,291 buried 20 Mar 1932 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada,,291 (Little Rapids Cemetery. Burial date from death record image.), occupation Merchant.291
				Thomas: Notes: Name spelled "Buchannan" on marriage certificate. Witnesses: Charles Dickson and Elizabeth Ervin or Evans, Thessalon. Married by Fred Woodger, Methodist. 1901 census (Thessalon) shows Mary McKessock, born 15-March-1875, living with the family and listed as a "lodger".
				(A)	Thomas Russell (Buck) Buchanan, born 21-Feb-1891 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada, died circa 1944 in Elgin Mills, Ontario, Canada, buried in Maple, Ontario, Canada.295 .
					Notes: Thomas died in a motor accident (Jane Buchanan)
					He married Lily Mary Betteridge, married 27-Dec-1940 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada,295 born 4-Jan-1907 in Sussex, England,295 died 10-Jul-1999 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.295
				(B)	Mary Ethelene Buchanan, born 5-Apr-1892 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada, died circa 1961.
					Notes: Jane Buchanan says in part, in an email of 24 Sept., 1999: "Lillian also mentioned that Etheleen was put in a hospital in North Bay or Sudbury as soon Thomas (Mary Currie Dobie's Husband) died. She wanted nothing more to do with her. It was said Thomas loved Etheleen very much and spoiled her. He would give her ribbons (from the store) for her hair against the wishes of Mary! Etheleen had a problem from childhood -- not sure what it was -- the story goes that she was struck by lightening while sitting by the fire and never was right after that. Who knows! Do love these family tales! We gather Buck paid to keep her in the hospital until she died in 1961 I think. There was provision for her in his will."
				(C)	Ruth Isabelle Buchanan, born 27-Jun-1893 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada, died about 1894,292 buried in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada,293 (Little Rapids Cemetery).
					Notes: "Isabelle" from Weslyan Methodist Birth & Baptism Records, quoted by Donna J. McCarthy in e-mail of Feb. 15, 1997.
				(D)	James A. Wilford Buchanan, born 1-Sep-1897 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada. .
					Notes: "Wilford" from 1901 census (Thessalon).
				(E)	John Samuel Rhodes Buchanan, born 13-May-1899 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada, died 10-May-1962 in Thessalon, Ontario, Canada. .
					Notes: Doctor attending birth was T.J. McCort.
					J. Buchannan <buchanan@drummond.sol.co.uk> says that Sam was in a hospital in Woodstock for the last nine years of his life.
					He married Lillian Louise Hertz, married circa 1932,295 born circa 1914.295
					Lillian: Notes: Jane Buchanan says Lillian was married at age 18.
	B.	Alexander Dobie, born about 1762 in Dumfries, Scotland,4 died 31-Oct-1826 in Woodside, Dumfries, Scotland.4 .
		Notes: "The Dobie Family" by Barbara (Dobie) Kram gives birth year as 1758.
		He married (1) Ann Swan, married about 1782 in Woodside, Dumfries, Scotland,4 born about 1758 in Scotland,2 died 7-Feb-1799 in Woodside, Scotland.2  He married (2) Janet Dickson, married __-___-1797,4 born about 1772,23 died 5-Mar-1862.4
		1.	Mary Dobie, (daughter of Alexander Dobie and Ann Swan) born 1-May-1783,4, baptized 18 May 1783 in Mousewald, Dumfries, Scotland.301 . She married George Coulthard, married __-___-____.4
		2.	Margaret Dobie, (daughter of Alexander Dobie and Ann Swan) born 15-Apr-1785.4 . She married Robert Wilson, married __-___-____.4
		3.	John Dobie, (son of Alexander Dobie and Ann Swan) born 23-Jan-1787 in Dumfries, Scotland.4 . He married Mary Currie, married __-___-____.4
		4.	William Dobie, (son of Alexander Dobie and Ann Swan) born 4-May-1789 in Dumfries, Scotland,4 died 20-Aug-1850 in Ekfrid Township, Ontario, Canada,4 occupation Farmer. .
			Notes: Left Scotland Apr. 3, 1820, arrived St. John N.B. June, 1820; purchased 400 acres on Thames River in South Ekfrid Twp., near Wardsville, Ont. in 1834 and lived on farm for [16] years -- "A History of Dobie Clan", Pg. 2.
			He married Mary Coulthard, married in Scotland,23 born 1792 in Scotland,4 (Her age at death was stated as 87, making her birth year 1793 or 1794.) (daughter of George Coulthard and Ann Dixon or Dickson), died 28-Jan-1881 in Ekfrid Township, Ontario, Canada.
			Mary: Notes: Probably the oldest child. New Brunswick 1820, Ekfred, Ont. 1833
			a.	George Dobie, born about 1814, died about 1814.304 .
				Notes: Died at birth.
			b.	Margaret Dobie, born about 1815.4 . She married W. Gleason, married __-___-____,304 born __-___-____.
			c.	Ann Dobie, born about 1815, died about 1908.305 . She married William J. Mitchell, married __-___-____,304 occupation Farmer.
				(A)	James Mitchell, born 16-Mar-1843 in Scotch Settlement, York County, New Brunswick, Canada, died 15-Dec-1897 in St. Stephen-Milltown, New Brunswick, Canada,306 occupation Premier of New Brunswick.  He married Mary Anne Ryder, married 17-Dec-1873 in St. Stephen-Milltown, New Brunswick, Canada.306
			d.	Alexander Dobie, born 30-May-1817 in Dumfriesshire, Scotland,302 died 5-Dec-1904 in New London, Ontario, Canada,302 occupation 16 Jun 1884 farmer, (Occupation of "Farmer" is written in the birth record of his daughter Reta Marie Dobie.).  He married (1) Maria Willey, married 8-Jul-1838,4 born about 1812,302 died 20-Oct-1848 in Aleidon Township, Michigan, United States.302  He married (2) Eliza McCurdy, married __-___-1849.4  He married (3) Justine Williams, married __-___-1864.302
				(A)	William M. Dobie, (son of Alexander Dobie and Maria Willey) born 8-Oct-1838 in Adrian, Michigan, United States,302 died 9-Mar-1920 in Mason, Michigan, United States.302 . He married Louisa C. Mayer, married 19-Apr-1877.302
				(B)	Adelaide Dobie, (daughter of Alexander Dobie and Maria Willey) born 2-Aug-1841,302 died __-May-1925.302 .
				(C)	Martha A. Dobie, (daughter of Alexander Dobie and Maria Willey) born 8-Jun-1843,302 died about 1864.302 .
				(D)	Laura J. Dobie, (daughter of Alexander Dobie and Maria Willey) born 4-Mar-1845,302 died __-Jul-1928.302 .
				(E)	Margaret L. Dobie, (daughter of Alexander Dobie and Maria Willey) born 1-Jan-1847,302 died about 1873.302 .
				(F)	Susan M. Dobie, (daughter of Alexander Dobie and Maria Willey) born 20-Oct-1848,302 died about 1935.
				(G)	Frances C. Dobie, (daughter of Alexander Dobie and Eliza McCurdy) born 14-May-1852,302 died __-Apr-1921.302 .
				(H)	Alexander J. Dobie, (son of Alexander Dobie and Eliza McCurdy) born 15-Mar-1855,302 died 3-Jan-1920.302 .
				(I)	Amy B. Dobie, (daughter of Alexander Dobie and Eliza McCurdy) born 12-Aug-1860,302 died about 1862.302 .
				(J)	Hibbard J. Dobie, (son of Alexander Dobie and Justine Williams) born 9-Jun-1865,302 died about 1913.302 . He married302 Ida Redman.
				(K)	Gertrude A. Dobie, (daughter of Alexander Dobie and Justine Williams) born 17-Jul-1868 in Alaiedon, Ingham, Michigan, United States,,302 died __-Jul-1868.302 .
				(L)	Allie Dobie, (daughter of Alexander Dobie and Justine Williams) born 30-May-1871,302 died about 1871.302 .
				(M)	Alberta D. Dobie, (daughter of Alexander Dobie and Justine Williams) born 24-Jun-1874 in Alaiedon, Ingham, Michigan, United States.,302 .
					Notes: Name written in her birth record is "D. L. Birdie Dobie".
				(N)	Flora Dobie, (daughter of Alexander Dobie and Justine Williams) born 1-Nov-1876.302 .
				(O)	Retta Marie Dobie, (daughter of Alexander Dobie and Justine Williams) born 18-Dec-1883 in Alaiedon, Ingham, Michigan, United States.307,302 .
			e.	David Dobie, born 30-Jan-1819 in Mousewald Parish, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, died 5-Mar-1914 in Tait's Corners, Ekfrid Township, Ontario, Canada, occupation Farmer.302 .
				Notes: Age given as "95 years, 1 month, 5 days" on death certificate, making birth date Jan. 28, 1819.  However, I used the date stated on the 1901 census. He lived in Ekfrid Twp. over 80 years. Also, marriage date of "31 June 1839" does not exist.
				He married Flora Roy McRae, married 31-Jun-1839 in Delaware, Ontario, Canada, born 4-Jan-1825 in Kintail, Rosshire, Scotland,4 (daughter of John Roy McRae and Ann McRae), died 27-Jun-1894 in Tait's Corners, Ekfrid Township, Ontario, Canada.
				(A)	John Alexander Dobie, born 3-Dec-1840 in Ekfrid Township, Ontario, Canada, died 9-Feb-1916 in Glencoe, Ontario, Canada, occupation Farmer.
					Notes: "John R. Dobie" in death certificate. Also mother = Mary McRae. John was reeve of Ekfrid Township in 1887.
					He married Mary Kenneth McRae, married109 born 14-Mar-1841 in Quebec,313 died 28-Dec-1930 in Glencoe, Ontario, Canada.,
					Mary: Notes: Mary stated on the 1901 census that her mother tongue was Gaelic.
				(B)	William Roy Dobie, born 25-Jun-1842 in Ekfrid Township, Ontario, Canada, died 6-Mar-1923 in Glencoe, Ontario, Canada, buried 8-Mar-1923 in Oakland Cemetery, occupation Farmer.
					Notes: The middle name "Roy" is strongly suggested, as that was the middle name of his mother and grandfather.  However, no documentary evidence has been seen to prove this.
					He married Selena Trestain, married 6-Apr-1867,4 born 31-May-1844 in Glencoe, Ontario, Canada,317 (daughter of George Trestain and Charity Adams), died 20-Apr-1927 in Glencoe, Ontario, Canada, buried 22-Apr-1927 in Glencoe, Ontario, Canada, (Oakland Cemetery).
					Selena: Notes: Died of carcinoma of liver. Dr. A.A. McIntyre.
				(C)	Alexander Dobie, born 4-May-1844 in Ekfrid Township, Ontario, Canada,109 died 21-Mar-1923 in Detroit, Michigan, United States,, occupation Merchant, occupation before 1923 Carpenter,322 (Occupation per image of death record was "retired carpenter").
					Notes: D.F. Dobie gives death place as Glencoe, Ont.
					He married (1) Elizabeth Ann Gardiner, married __-___-____,109 born about 1854.
					Elizabeth: Notes: Full name stated in 3 children's birth certificates. Stated she was of Irish extraction on 1881 census.
					He married (2) Martha? --?--, married __-___-____, born in Ireland.
					Martha?: Notes: Marion Dobie says in letter of Nov. 2, 1995: Alexander Dobie later married an Irish lady whom he met on a visit to Ireland (Martha?) No name or date. No issue."
				(D)	George Dobie, born 25-Jul-1846 in Ekfrid Township, Ontario, Canada,109 died about 1928 in Glencoe, Ontario, Canada,302 occupation Merchant.
					Notes: George was postmaster in Glencoe in 1887.
					He married Georgiana Gordon, married __-___-____,109 born 4-May-1848 in Ontario,4 (daughter of unknown Gordon and --?--), died 22-Jan-1936 in Glencoe, Ontario, Canada.4
					Georgiana: Notes: Georgiana was the sister of the Dr. George Byron Gordon who married Mary Ann Dobie.
				(E)	James Dobie, born 15-May-1848 in Ekfrid Township, Ontario, Canada,, died 26-Jun-1920 in Dunwich Township, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada, buried 28-Jun-1920 in Dutton, Ontario, Canada, (Fairview Cemetery), occupation Farmer, blacksmith, occupation 1881 Blacksmith. .
					Notes: "A History of the Dobie Clan" gives birth year as 1849.
					He married Mary Willey, married 26-Nov-1872 in London, Ontario, Canada, born 18-Apr-1846 in Ontario,326,327, (daughter of Lot Willey and Catherine --?--).
					Mary: Notes: Stated on 1881 census that she is of US origin.
				(F)	Mary Ann Dobie, born 13-Feb-1851 in Ekfrid Township, Ontario, Canada,109 died 13-Oct-1931 in Glencoe, Ontario, Canada,4 census 1911 in Middlesex West, Ontario, Canada.110 .
					Notes: Mary Ann was living with W.C. Dobie in Port Arthur on 6 April 1891, which was the date of enumeration of that family in the 1891 census. The dirt on Mary Ann is that she was impossible to live with and W.C. Dobie's two eldest girls "drove her out of the house".
					She married (1) Robert M. Gordon, Dr., married 29-May-1872 in Chatham, Ontario, Canada,,4 born __-___-1846,4 (son of Alexander Gordon and Elizabeth --?--), died __-___-1911,4 occupation Medical doctor.
					Robert: Notes: Dr. Robert Gordon was the brother of Georgiana Gordon who married George Dobie. The "M" middle initial from birth certificate of Rebecca, his daughter from his second marriage.
					She married (2) William Currie Dobie, married cir 1888,108 born 1-Sep-1839 in Liverpool, England,95,96,97 (son of John David Dobie and Mary Isabella Russell), christened 8 Sep 1839 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England,95 died 13-Nov-1928 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada,98,97 buried 15 Nov 1928 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada (Riverside Cemetery), occupation Police magistrate,96 immigrated 1849 to Canada from England,65 census 1871 in Bruce Mines, Ontario, Canada,99 (Age 32 years), census 1881 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada,100 (Age 41 years), occupation 1881 Grocer clerk,100 census 1901 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada,101 (Age 61 years), census 1911 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada,102 (Age 72 years).
					William:
					Notes: This is the obituary of W.C. Dobie, mainly from the Port Arthur, News Chronicle, Wednesday, November 14, 1928, with an additional paragraph [1 bracketed thus] from his obituary in the Toronto Mail of the same date.  Additional information [2 bracketed thus] is taken from a biography in The History of Ontario, Vol. 2, Pages 795-6, which was published about 1907.
					
					W.C. DOBIE IS
					DEAD AFTER 56
					YEARS HERE
					   ----
					IN THRTY YEARS AS POLICE
					   MAGISTRATE HEARD
					     30,000 CASES
					       ----
					COMMUNITY INTERESTS
					       ----
					Active in School Affairs and
					 First Initiate of Shuniah
					      Masonic Lodge
					          ----
					     William Currie Dobie, for thirty-one years Police Magistrate
					in Port Arthur, died at his home, 16 Regent Street, at 6:30 last
					evening, in his ninetieth year.  Mr. Dobie had been ailing for
					several weeks, but it was not until a week ago that his condition
					became serious.  He recently underwent a minor operation, but
					members of the family say it did not contribute to his death.
					     The news of Mr. Dobie's death, whle not unexpected, was a
					shock to the citizens of Port Arthur and Fort William who had
					known him for many years.  His death removes one of Port Arthur's
					earliest citizens, a resident of the city and district for more
					than half a century.
					
					Crossed Atlantic by Sail
					
					     Born in Liverpool, England, September 1, 1839, Mr. Dobie
					came to Canada when ten years of age, crossing the ocean in a
					sailing vessel which took many days to make the passage.  With
					his parents he settled in Bruce County, Ontario, and moved to
					Port Arthur in 1872.  Here he engaged in business with Thos.
					Marks & Bros. as supervisor of the company's various activities
					in the town.  He was appointed Police Magistrate in 1890 for the
					town of Port Arthur and the district, which extended as far East
					as Chapleau, a distance of 400 miles.  He retired from the Bench
					October 31, 1921, and his place was taken by W.W. O'Brien,
					formerly District Magistrate at Fort William.
					
					Tried 30,000 Cases
					
					     During his tenure of office Mr. Dobie tried no fewer than
					30,000 cases in the Port Arthur Police Court, and it was to his
					credit that only seven out of that total were appealed, and in
					the more serious cases out of the seven his judgement was upheld
					by the appeal court judges.  The longest sentence ever imposed by
					him on an offender was seven years with twenty lashes.  The early
					jurisdiction of Mr. Dobie extended from Port Arthur to Rideout,
					on the Canadian Pacific Railway, although he never had occasion
					to go further East than White River.  At the time of his
					appointment to the Bench there were only magistrates at Port
					Arthur, Sault Ste. Marie, North Bay and Sudbury in the Western
					portion of Ontario.
					
					Always Near Water
					
					     To quote from a Western daily (See column by "The Wanderer"
					in Winnipeg Evening Tribune, November 18, 1927) which recently
					published a biography of Mr. Dobie, the following is written:
					"Mr. Dobie hailed from the Mersey side, and it is said that those
					who are reared in the great ports of the world are never happy if
					they stray away from the sight of shipping.  Port Arthur, despite
					the fact that it is as yet an inland, need concede few points to
					Liverpool in cosmopolitanism; it has this further advantage, that
					one need but step back from the shore to be in the primeval
					forest and among the treasure-bearing rocks.  Mr. Dobie's choice
					of his New World home was a happy one.  He was more than a good
					mixer; he had that indefinable bonhommie of the harbor-folk, that
					meets all races, creeds and colors on an equal footing.  He has
					done his share of pioneering in Canada in a place where he could
					still keep one eye on a busy harbor and rub shoulders with the
					sturdy cosmopolites who ply the trackless ways of commerce."
					
					Early Life
					
					     Mr. Dobie was the son of John and Isabella (Russell) Dobie
					of Dumfries, Scotland.  He was educated at St. Peter's
					Presbyterian Boys' School, Birkenhead, England; public shools,
					Toronto; Whitby Grammar School, Whitby, Ontario.  His first work
					was farming in County Grey, Ontario, where he had charge of his
					father's homestead until he was twenty-one years of age.  [2 . .
					. Mr. Dobie made his way To Western Ontario in 1860, being
					employed during the succeeding twelve years in Bruce Mines in the
					Algoma district.]
					     In 1865 he married Sarah Dorothy Coatsworth, of St. Joseph,
					Miss., [Incorrect information! Sarah Dorothy Coatsworth was born
					at Perry's lead mine, St. Francis County, Missouri, and was
					living at Bruce Mines with her family when she married] daughter
					of Joshua Coatsworth, mining engineer, [who was born in]
					Middleton, Durham, England [2 of Bruce Mines, who was at one time
					manager for the Montreal Mining Company at Michipicaten, and
					later postmaster at Bruce Mines.]
					       [2 In 1868 he entered the employ of the firm of Thomas
					Marks & Brother, in the capacity of clerk, there remaining for
					four years.  In 1872 he was sent by that firm to take charge of
					its branch house at Port Arthur, then called Prince Arthur's
					Landing, and retained supervision of the business during the
					following twelve years.]
					     On his arrival in Prince Arthur's Landing in 1872, Mr. Dobie
					entered the employ of Thomas Marks & Bros., and remained with the
					firm until 1884, when he entered the general store business with
					John C. Hasking under the firm name of Hasking & Dobie.  He later
					sold his interest in this business and in 1887 he entered into
					partnership with George Marks, Jr., and Harold A. Wiley, also in
					the general store business.  The firm operated under the title of
					W.C. Dobie & Co.  In 1889 he purchased the interests of Marks and
					Wiley and in 1894 disposed of the business to his son, J.C. Dobie
					who amalgamated with other concerns to form the present business
					of The Marks-Clavet-Dobie Co., Limited.
					
					Public Service
					
					     Mr. Dobie's service to the public dates back many years.
					His first public office was as councillor for the Municipality of
					Shuniah before the Municipality of Port Arthur was established.
					He was five years a member of the Council of Shuniah.  In 1886 he
					was elected a member of the Port Arthur Town Council and was re-
					elected in 1887 and 1888.
					     In educational matters the records of the Board of Education
					show that he was first elected a trustee of the School Board in
					1875, serving also in 1876, 78 and 88.  He was chairman of the
					Board in 1877, succeeding John Parke.  He served continuously as
					secretary or auditor from 1879 to 1884.  The Board of Education
					has no records from 1884 to 1903.  In 1903 he was again elected a
					trustee and retired from the Board in 1907.
					
					Other Activities
					
					     In politics Mr. Dobie was a Liberal, although he took no
					active part in politics for a number of years.  He was an
					Inspector of Mines for the Dominion Government when the Silver
					Islet, Pie Island and Shuniah mines were in operation, and was
					also Overseer of Fisheries for the Dominion Government for many
					years.
					     In religion Mr. Dobie was a Presbyterian, being a member of
					and several times Chairman of the Board of Managers of St. Paul's
					Presbyterian Church.  He assisted in gathering funds to build the
					first Presbyterian lecture room, as it was then called.  That
					building is still standing and is today occupied by F. W. Virgo,
					South Court street, a half block South of Arthur on the East
					side.  He also collected money for the first organ to provide
					music for the choir, of which he was precentor, being a great
					lover of music.
					     [1 . . . (he kept) voluminous diaries with an actual record
					of weather conditions dating back to 1872, when he first arrived
					in Port Arthur.  (The headline of his obituary in the Mail
					referred to him as a "weather prophet").]
					
					As a Mason
					
					     Mr. Dobie held the distinction of being the first initiate
					to Shuniah Lodge, A. F. & A. M., which occurred June 7, 1873.  He
					was Master of Shuniah Lodge in 1876, 1877 and 1883, and District
					Deputy Grand Master of Algoma District.  He entered Shuniah
					Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, on March 24, 1893; elected to the
					office of Scribe N. 1893, and Excellent Second Principal in 1897.
					He was a life member of both Shuniah Lodge and Shuniah Chapter,
					and in 1923 he was presented with the Masonic Long Service Medal
					by Grand Lodge.  Mr. Dobie was also a member of Port Arthur
					Lodge, Independent Order of Oddfellows, and a Past District
					Deputy Grand Master.
					
					Surviving Family
					
					     Mr Dobie is survived by two Sons, J.C. Dobie, of Marks-
					Clavet-Dobie Co., Limited; E.J.B. Dobie, of the Bonin-Dobie-
					Jackson Insurance Co.; two daughters, Elizabeth, at home, and
					Mrs. D.G. Sutherland, Vancouver, B.C.  Two brothers and a sister
					also survive.  They are James B., of Sudbury; Joseph B., of Owen
					Sound, and Mrs. T. Buchanan, of Thessalon, Ontario.  Mrs. Dobie
					died August 1, 1879.  One daughter, Wilna, died January 1, 1893,
					and Isobel died November 1, 1919.
					     Although his duties as Police Magistrate kept him at his
					office, and he had various offices during his thirty-one years on
					the Bench, Mr. Dobie found time to serve the public in many ways.
					He was an ardent educationalist, and many a man today owes to Mr.
					Dobie's zeal and energy the education he has and the position he
					holds in the mercantile and professional life of the country.
					
					Friend of Children
					
					     Mr. Dobie had a warm heart for the children and not a few of
					the younger citizens will remember that friendly pat on the head
					he received when meeting with the Magistrate.  He had always a
					kind word for the younger people, and it was his kindly manner
					and joking ways that endeared him to the school boys and girls of
					the earlier days.  Hardly a Friday afternoon passed in the old
					Central School that Mr. Dobie did not visit one or more of the
					rooms and spend an afternoon in story telling, of bears, of
					wolves, of sailing the ocean and many other yarns of the old
					days.  He was always a welcome figure at the schools, and
					probably no other man in the history of Port Arthur was better
					liked or more respected than Mr. Dobie, and his passing will
					recall to hundreds, their school days as no other thing could.
					It seemed that he lived his school days over again in those must
					rooms of the Old Central.
					     Fond of books and worth-while literature, Mr. Dobie became a
					brilliant conversationalist and his long service on the Bench
					gave to him a vast store of human experience to impart to his
					listeners.  He knew the true points of difference between workers
					and idlers, between knaves and honest men, between those who work
					wisely and those who work foolishly.  His personality and
					intellectual vigor compelled attention and respect wherever he
					went.  He was a good speaker and a man of good address and
					culture; conscientious and honest in all his dealings, a man of
					strong religious tendencies and a fine judge of human nature.  It
					has been said of him that he would sacrifice the ends of legal
					justice where there was a faint hope of reformation of the
					prisoner.
					     During the Great War he assisted in the various patriotic
					organizations, and after the war he was sympathetic towards ex-
					soldiers who appeared before him for infractions of law.  He
					maintained and often expressed in open court that it was a great
					difficulty for a man discharged from the army after long service
					and hardships to re-establish himself in civil life at short
					notice and he based many of his decisions on that understanding.
					
					Magistrate O'Brien's Tribute
					
					     Police Magistrate W.W. O'Brien, before court commenced this
					morning, paid a tribute to former Police Magistrate W.C. Dobie.
					"It is with the deepest regret," Mr. O'Brien said, "that I have
					(......ace) this morning the death of one of Port Arthur's oldest
					and most esteemed citizen, in the person of William Currie Dobie,
					who for thirty-two years presided over this court.  It had been
					my privilege to have been associated with the late Mr. Dobie for
					many years.  No kinder-hearted man ever presided over this court.
					He was always careful, extremely careful, before he deprived any
					man of his liberty.  To his family, the officials of this court,
					the police and myself extend deepest sympathy in the loss of a
					kind father, and to the citizens in their loss of a splendid and
					upright citizen."
					
					Masonic Funeral
					
					     The funeral, Thursday afternoon, will be under Masonic
					auspices.  It will leave the family residence, 16 Regent Street,
					at 2:30 o'clock, for service at St. Paul's United Church at 3
					o'clock, to be conducted by Rev. Andrew Rodan.  Pall bearers will
					be T.N. Andrew, Col. S.W. Ray, H.B. Hardy, T.F. Milne, Dr. C.N.
					Laurie and F.B. Allen.  Mayor Hourigan has requested that during
					the time of the funeral, blinds be drawn in the stores of the
					city.  Flags on the Whalen building, and public buildings are
					flying at half- mast today.  The Masonic service will be in
					charge of S.W. Ray, Past District Deputy Grand Master.
				(G)	Daniel R. Dobie, born 5-Feb-1852 in Ekfrid Township, Ontario, Canada, died 14-Mar-1907,4 occupation Merchant, real estate. .
					Notes: Was postmaster in Wallaceburg, Ont. in 1887.  Marriage witnesses: Wm. G. Dobie and Maggie McDonald, Wallaceburg. Married by Christopher Cookman, Methodist.
					He married Carrie Blanche McDonald, married 2-Sep-1879 in Wallaceburg, Kent County, Ontario, Canada, born 13-Feb-1858 in Port Lambton, Ontario, Canada,334 (daughter of Daniel B. McDonald and Margaret A. Johnston).
					Carrie: Notes: "Blanche" from marriage records. 2nd marriage witnesses: James G. Howard & Grace McKie, Chatham. Married by Roger S.W. Howard, Chatham, C. of E.
				(H)	Christopher Dobie, born 15-Apr-1855 in Ekfrid Township, Ontario, Canada, died 19-Sep-1906 in Glencoe, Ontario, Canada,4 occupation Farmer.
					Notes: Witness to marriage: Duncan A. Dobie, Ekfrid; (Sydow?) Murray, Ekfrid. Married by Hugh Cameron.  D.F. Dobie's list of July 20, 1995 says "St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church".
					He married Christina (Christy) Murray, married 16-Nov-1880 in Ekfrid, Ontario, Canada, born 4-Sep-1856 in Ekfrid Township, Ontario, Canada,337 (daughter of James Murray and Jane Galbraith), died 2-Jan-1918 in Ekfrid Township, Ontario, Canada, buried in Ekfrid Twp, Oakland Cemetery.339
					Christina: Notes: Listed as Baptist on marriage certificate.
				(I)	David Dobie, Jr., born 31-May-1857 in Tait's Corners, Ekfrid Township, Ontario, Canada, died 13-Feb-1951 in Tait's Corners, Ekfrid Township, Ontario, Canada,4 occupation Farmer.302 .
					Notes: Lived at Lot 5, Con. 2, Dunwich at time of marriage.
					He married (1) Elizabeth May, married __-___-1883,4 born about 1861,, died 20-Apr-1906 in Dunwich, Ontario, Canada.
					Elizabeth: Notes: Died of tuberculosis.
					He married (2) Wealtha Leverington, married 8-Apr-1909 in Dunwich Township, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada, born 9-Aug-1880 in Aldborough Township, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada,4 (daughter of Edward Leverington and Amelia Watson), died 19-Apr-1940 in London, Ontario, Canada.4
					Wealtha: Notes: Marriage witnesses: Florence Taylor & Mary Laidlaw, Dutton. M. by Rev. Walter Laidlaw Nichol, Dutton. Married in Largie Manse, Dunwich.
				(J)	Duncan Albert Dobie, Dr., born 27-Apr-1859 in Ekfrid Township, Ontario, Canada,109 died 23-Oct-1939 in New York City, NY, occupation Medical doctor.
					Notes: Practiced in New York City -- Dobie Connection, July, 1993.  Three Ont. birth records for  children list Toronto address as 116 McCaul St., but record #40427-94 is for an un-named female born 27-April 1894, which is 23 days after Fanny Flora's birth.
					This is the obituary of Duncan A. Dobie from the New York Times, 24 Oct. 1939, p. 23., transcribed by Jay Nellis:
					
					 DR. DUNCAN A. DOBIE /  Had Practiced Here Since 1897 - Succumbs at Home at 80
					     Dr. Duncan A. Dobie, a general practitioner of medicine, died yesterday
					of a heart attack at his residence, 545 West 111th Street, in his
					eighty-first year.  Born in the Province of Ontario, Canada, Dr. Dobie was
					educated at Toronto University and in the late Eighties served as senior
					resident house surgeon of the Toronto Hospital, and in the research
					laboratory of the university.
					          He came to this city in 1897 and from then until 1904 was associated with
					the New York and St. Bartholomew's Hospitals, and from1900 to 1913 was
					medical director of the Empire Life, Tradesmen's Life, and American
					Temperance Life Insurance Companies.
					         Surviving are his second wife, who was Clara Jean Blackwell at their
					marriage in 1918; a son Duncan A. Jr., and two daughters, Mrs. Flora
					Martin and Jean Dobie.
					He married (1) Fanny H. Henderson, married in New Orleans, LA.4
					Fanny: Notes: Name is "Fanny H. Henderson" in Ont. birth records, but "Francis Carrie Henderson" in Dobie Connection.
					He married (2) Clara Jean Blackwell, married about 1918,345 died cir 1940.
				(K)	Philip Dobie, born __-May-1861 in Ekfrid Township, Ontario, Canada.109 .
					Notes: Unmarried. Disappeared in late 1880's while at work near Belle River.
				(L)	Andrew Dobie, born 24-May-1863 in Ekfrid Township, Ontario, Canada,109 died __-___-1866 in Ekfrid Township, Ontario, Canada.4 .
			f.	John Dobie, born about 1822 in New Brunswick, Canada, died 8 Mar 1888 in Lambton County, Ontario, Canada. .
				Notes: John Dobie "of Ekfrid" married to "Jannet Pool of Yarmouth" by Rev. Wm(?) McWilliams. Witnesses: William Pool and Alexander McQueen.
				He married Janet Poole, married 14-Feb-1843 in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, born 1814 in Dumfriesshire, Scotland,347, (daughter of John Poole and Janet Hall), died __ Jun 1898 in Port Huron, Michigan, United States.347
				(A)	Agnes Dobie, born about 1844. . She married Thomas Eastwood, married 30 Jun 1864 in Bosanquet, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada, (Married by Rev. P. Goodfellow,  Minister of the Canadian Presbyterian Church, Bosanquet), (see witness 11) born about 1843 in England,351 (son of William Eastwood and Eliza Berenger).
				(B)	William Dobie, born about 1846. .
				(C)	Mary Ann Dobie, born 14-Oct-1848, died 31-Mar-1917 in Holly, Colorado, United States,353 resided 1881 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, (St. David's Ward).
					Notes: Born Sept. 1851 according to 1900 Boulder CO census.
					She married Archibald McIntyre, married 2-Apr-1873 in Widder Station, Ontario, Canada, (Grand Trunk Railroad), born 7-May-1850 in Ontario, Canada, (son of James McIntyre and Auretta Alice Gorham), died 16-Jan-1915 in Holly, Colorado, United States,356 occupation Merchant, minister, occupation 1881 Clerk,354 resided 1881 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada,354 (St. David's Ward).
					Archibald: Notes: Marriage witnesses: William Dobie, Widder Station; Mary McIntyre, Toronto. Marriage certificate gives occupation as coal & wood merchant, death certificate gives occupation as retired minister. Archibald and Mary Ann moved to Colorado in 1891, according to 1900 Colorado census records, when they lived at 1538 Marine St., Boulder.
				(D)	John Dobie, born about 1851 in Ontario, Canada, born about 1855 in Ontario, Canada, died 9-Oct-1919 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, buried 11 Oct 1919 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada,358 (Mount Pleasant Cemetery), occupation Engineer.
					Notes: Marriage witnesses: Robert E. Hassard, Orangeville; Flo A. Hassard, Toronto. M. by W. E. Hassard, Presbyterian. He died at 64 Duke St., Toronto. Birth year may be 1855, as his death age given as 64 yrs.
					He married Elizabeth McNivan, married 29-Mar-1900 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, born __-___-1863 in Scotland, (daughter of Dugald McNivan and Isabel Campbell).
				(E)	James Irving Dobie, born about 1858 in Wardsville, Ontario, Canada, died 29-Oct-1923 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, occupation Grain merchant, clerk. .
					Notes: Lived at 520 Roxton Rd., Toronto at time of death. Marriage witnesses: Agnes Atkins, William Dobie, Thedford. Married by Rev. Hector Currie, Presbyterian. Lived at 179 Lippincott St., Toronto in 1891 (daughter Mary's birth record).
					He married Annie Elizabeth Atkins, married 10-May-1882 in Thedford, Ontario, Canada, born __-___-1858 in United States (daughter of Joseph William Atkins and Lily --?--).
					Annie: Notes: Age stated as 24 in marriage record.
			g.	Mary Dobie, born about 1823.4 . She married Farquhar McRae, married __-___-____,304 born __-___-____.
				Farquhar: Notes: 2nd cousin to the Farquhar Macrae married to Mary's sister Jane Dobie.
			h.	Jane Dobie, born about 1825.4 . She married Farquhar McRae, married __-___-____,304 born __-___-____.
				Farquhar: Notes:  Wallaceburg
			i.	Elizabeth Dobie, born about 1829 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. .
				Notes: 60th anniversary announcement states they had 12 children, 9 still living in 1912.
				She married Donald Graham, married 9-Mar-1852,366 born circa 1822 in Argyleshire, Scotland.366
			j.	William D. Dobie, born about 1831 in New Brunswick, died 15-Sep-1895.4 . He married Margaret Graham, married __-___-____,304 born __-___-1833,4 died 3-Oct-1862.4
			k.	George Dobie, born about 1832,4 died about 1833.304 .
				Notes: Died in infancy.
		5.	Agnes Dobie, (daughter of Alexander Dobie and Ann Swan) born __-___-1791.325 .
		6.	Andrew Dobie, (son of Alexander Dobie and Ann Swan) born __-___-1793.325 .
		7.	Elizabeth Dobie, (daughter of Alexander Dobie and Ann Swan) born __-___-1796.325 .
		8.	James Dobie, (son of Alexander Dobie and Janet Dickson) born 6-Feb-1799 in Scotland,4 died 4-May-1800 in Tinwald, Scotland.4 .
		9.	James Dobie, (son of Alexander Dobie and Janet Dickson) born 29 Jun 1800 in Mousewald, Dumfries, Scotland, born 11-May-1800,4 died __-___-1800.4 .
		10.	Robert Dobie, (son of Alexander Dobie and Janet Dickson) born 28-Oct-1801 in Mousewald, Dumfries, Scotland,,4 died 29-Apr-1823.4 .
		11.	James Dickson Dobie, (son of Alexander Dobie and Janet Dickson) born 9-Jan-1804.4 .
		12.	Joseph Dobie, (son of Alexander Dobie and Janet Dickson) born 1-Apr-1805 in Mousewald, Dumfries, Scotland.,4 . He married Mary Califf, married 11-Dec-1826.4
		13.	Annie Dobie, (daughter of Alexander Dobie and Janet Dickson) born 9-Oct-1808 in Mousewald, Dumfries, Scotland.,4 .
		14.	Alexander Dobie, (son of Alexander Dobie and Janet Dickson) born 6-Jul-1810 in Mousewald, Dumfries, Scotland.,4 .
		15.	Annie Dobie, (daughter of Alexander Dobie and Janet Dickson) born 26-Oct-1812 in Mousewald, Dumfries, Scotland.,4 .
		16.	David McLellan Dobie, (son of Alexander Dobie and Janet Dickson) born 8-Sep-1816 in Mousewald, Dumfries, Scotland.,4 .
II.	Hugh Dobie, born about 1720,2 died 14-Feb-1790 in Barshire.2 . He married Jean Glover, born about 1720,2 died 15-May-1780 in Dalruskin.2
	Jean: Notes: J.C.Gracie tree says "issue"
III.	William Dobie, born about 1724,2 died 25-Sep-1814 in Dalruskin.2 . He married (1) Jean Bell, born cir 1737,2 died 22-Sep-1772.2  He married (2) Jane Jardine, born about 1746,2 died 1-Aug-1829.2
	A.	James Dobie, (son of William Dobie and Jean Bell). He married Sarah Bell, married in Dalruskin.
		1.	Alexander Dobie, born cir 1766, ref number J.C.Gracie tree.  He married Mary Ferguson, married in Dalruskin, ref number J.C.Gracie tree.
			a.	Elizabeth Dobie, born 18-Apr-1799 in Dalruskin, ref number J.C.Gracie tree.
		2.	William Dobie, born cir 1768, ref number J.C.Gracie tree.  He married Janet Jardine, married in Dalruskin, ref number J.C.Gracie tree.
			a.	Rebecca Dobie, born 28-Aug-1798, ref number J.C.Gracie tree.
			b.	Jean Dobie, ref number J.C.Gracie tree.
				Notes: J.C.Gracie tree says "Died young"
		3.	Rebecca Dobie, born 9-Apr-1769, ref number J.C.Gracie tree.
			Notes: J.C.Gracie tree says "S.P."
	B.	Robert Dobie, (son of William Dobie and Jean Bell).
		Notes: J.C.Gracie tree says "Died S.P."
	C.	Alexander Dobie, (son of William Dobie and Jean Bell).
		Notes: From J.C. Gracie tree
		He married --?--.
		1.	Alexander Dobie.
			Notes: From J.C. Gracie tree
			He married Jean Black.
	D.	Mary Dobie, (daughter of William Dobie and Jean Bell).
	E.	Jean Dobie, (daughter of William Dobie and Jane Jardine).
		Notes: J.C.Gracie tree says "Died an infant"
	F.	John Dobie, (son of William Dobie and Jane Jardine).
	G.	William Dobie, (son of William Dobie and Jane Jardine).
	H.	Andrew Dobie, (son of William Dobie and Jane Jardine).
	I.	Agnes Dobie,2 (daughter of William Dobie and Jane Jardine). She married Robert Smith.2
		Robert: Notes: J.C.Gracie tree says "Of Elderslea
	J.	Rebecca Dobie, (daughter of William Dobie and Jane Jardine). She married Thomas Aitcheson, married in Kelwood.
		1.	Margaret Aitcheson.  She married Robert Currie.
			Robert: Notes: J.C.Gracie tree lists 2 living children & 7 died.
			a.	Thomas Aitcheson Currie, born in Dumfries, Scotland, occupation Bookseller.  He married2 Agnes Ronald.
				(A)	Margaret Aitcheson Currie.
			b.	Robert Currie.
				Notes: J.C.Gracie tree says "Married ......., issue"
		2.	Jane Aitcheson.
		3.	John Aitcheson.
		4.	Janet Aitcheson.
		5.	William Aitcheson.
		6.	Robert Aitcheson.
		7.	Agnes Aitcheson.
		8.	Mary Aitcheson.  She married Thomas Johnstone, married in Dumfries, Scotland, occupation Writer.2
			Thomas: Notes: J.C.Gracie tree says "issue"
		9.	Rebecca Aitcheson.
		10.	Adam Aitcheson.
		11.	James Aitcheson.
		12.	Thomas Aitcheson.
IV.	Thomas Dobie, died 19-May-1813 in Whiteknowes.2 . He married Mary Robson, born cir 1742,2 died 17-Jun-1824.2
	A.	Mary Dobie, born cir 1775, died 6-Oct-1840, ref number J.C.Gracie tree.
		Notes: J.C.Gracie tree says "S.P."

1 Witness  John C. Dobie
2 Witness  Margaret McCallum
3 Witness  George Edward Peters
4 Witness  William Rankin
5 Witness  Alexander Pringle Halliday
6 Witness  Isabella Somerville McKessock
7 Witness  Albert Moore
8 Witness  Etta Wood
9 Witness  Edwin Robinson
10 Witness  Grace Ann Jeffrey
11 Witness  Thomas Kirkpatrick