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CONTACTS & RESEARCH :
DUMFRIES, TINWALD, DALRUSCAN, KIRKBEAN, SCOTLAND :
Photos of Dalruscan Farm.
The name of Dalruscan or Dalruskin is firmly connected to the Dobie family. It is a farm about three miles north of Tinwald (see the photos above).
If you look at the Gracie Tree several items below here, you will see
many references to Dobies from "Dalruskin". Robert Dobie has again come through with some photos of Dalruscan as it is now known,
taken in May 2007.DOBIE :
John David Dobie and Isabella Russell were probably both born in Dumfries, Scotland, c. 1812, and were married there c. 1834. The family moved to Birkenhead, England, just across the Mersey River from Liverpool, where John, a stonecutter, worked on construction of the Liverpool docks. Coming to Canada in 1849, they settled first in Toronto and then in Chatsworth, Ont. where they both are buried. Their nine children lived in Bruce Mines, Thessalon, Owen Sound and Port Arthur (now part of Thunder Bay), all in Ontario.
Detail from the gravestone of John Dobie and Isabella Russell in Chatsworth, Ontario.
Photos of the Chatsworth graveyard and War Memorial. John and Isabella Dobie are buried in the
United Church graveyard in Chatsworth Ont. Here are a few photos I took there in October 2005 of their gravestone
as well as of the gravestone of John McKessock and his wife Elizabeth Dobie (daughter of John Dobie and Isabella Russell). There are also photos of the War Memorial in
Chatsworth, engraved with the names of J. Milton Dobie, William J. McKessock, and two Galbraith men who may or may not be connected to us.
Two photos of the old Dobie farm near Chatsworth, Ont. This farm was once owned by John Dobie and Isabella Russell, and is just
a short drive from the Chatsworth cemetery (see the photos above). They moved there from Toronto in the mid-1850's.
These photos were sent to me by M. J. McCarron.
Dora (Dobie) Rust-D'Eye was the costume designer for Opera Atellier in Toronto,
for over 21 years. This illustrated feature story on their production of Médée,
ran in The Toronto Star on October 31, 2002.William Currie Dobie was the older brother of John David Dobie (box above) and the two families sailed from Liverpool to New York City together in 1849 (see the article and passenger list above). I don't know much about this family except what I extracted from Ontario Archives records. The family settled in or near Mosa or Ekfrid Twps., and their children seem to have settled in the London, Ont. area. Information is needed on this line.
Based on a family tree drawn up in 1873 by James Campbell Gracie of Dumfries, the Gracie Tree shows the
ancestors of an Alexander Dobie of Tinwald, Dumfries-shire, from about 1560 to about 1870.
John David Dobie and William Currie Dobie (see the
two boxes above) are descended from a branch of this tree. There are many gaps and inconsistencies,
so your help is very much needed if you have any information.
2022 Click here to see the transcription.
Included in the transcription is much new and corrected information sent to me by Dobie researchers, as well as
census information about a few of the families.
Surnames in the transcription are: Aitcheson, Anderson, Bell, Black, Blair, Boyd, Broach, Burgess, Byers,
Cleeland, Cowan, Craig / Craik,
Currie, Dalziel, Dickson / Dixon, Dobie, Downing, Earnshaw, Ferguson, Fullarton, Gamble, Glover, Gold, Goodsir,
Gordon, Haining, Hallett, Halliday, Helme, Herb, Hunter, Jardine, Jeffrey, Johnstone, Koykka, Lawson, Limont, Link,
Little, MacGillivray, MacMillan, Martin, Mathieson, McClure, McDonald, McFadzean, McGeorge, McKinnol,
McMurdo, Meumann, Miller, Murray, Palmer, Paterson,
Ritchie, Robson, Ronald, Scotland, Scott, Seton, Sloan / Sloun, Small, Smith, Somerville, Sproat, Stewart,
Stirling, Strathearn, Swan, Telfer, Turner, Wagner, Ward, Webb, Wilkins, Wright.
(Revised May 23, 2022)
John David McEachern (1923 - 2008) son of John Allan McEachern and
Mary Tina Dobie, was shown the original Gracie Tree when he was visiting Dumfries while stationed
near there during World War II. He had it copied and brought it back to Canada. The tree shown above is a hand-drawn
copy of John's copy.Click here to see his obituary and a much larger photo. |
See a full-size image of the Gracie Tree. This image is about twice the width of your screen, and was constructed from about 15 scans. There are several versions in circulation – this one was hand-copied in 1972 – so if you have an earlier version I sure would like to hear from you. |
DOBBIE :
DOBY :
ETC :
SCOTTISH GENEALOGY :
. . . And so ye see, auld Pittoddles, when his third wife dee'd, he got mairrit upon the laird o' Blaithershins'
aughteenth dochter, that was sister to Jemima, that was mairrit till Tarn Flumexer, that was first and second cousin
to the Pittoddleses, whase brither becam laird efterwards, an' mairrit Blaithershins' Baubie
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an' that way Jemima becam in a kind o' a way her ain niece an' her ain aunty, an', as we used to say, her guid-brither
was mairrit to his ain grannie.
– Book Of Scottish Anecdote : Hislop (quoted in The Scots Book, by Ronald Macdonald Douglas,
published in 1995 by Senate / Tiger Books International plc, Twickenham, UK).
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