DOBIE / DOBBIE / DOBY
RESEARCHERS and LINKS

This page is for the use of anyone researching the Dobie / Dobbie surname of any spelling variation. Please with a short description of your Dobie connection, along with your genealogy website address if you have one. Include whatever info you want as there's lots of storage space. If there's too much to list with your name below, I'll create a separate page for you and link to it.

Doby Name Study Website :

• The Doby Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Doby name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Doby name. Related surnames and name variants are: Doby, Dobby, Dobey, Dobbey, Dobie, Dobbie, Dobe, Dobbe. Click to visit their website for more information. -- Website link added November 18, 2021.

People based mainly in North America :

• The Dobie Clan of North America : Please write to the newsletter editor:
  Mr. George Dobie, 17154 Valley Creek Drive, Cleveland, OH 44136, U.S.A.
  The Clan hold an annual family gathering which alternates in location between sites near Glencoe, Ontario and in Ohio. They are compiling a history of all lines of the Dobie family and they would love to connect to you.

• P.O. Box 20095, Perth, ON, Canada. K7H 3M6.
  You're looking at my website now, but to briefly summarize my Dobie interests, they are the descendants of John David Dobie and Mary Isabella Russell who came to Canada with their family in 1849. Their children settled in the Chatsworth, Owen Sound, Bruce Mines, Thessalon and Port Arthur areas of Ontario. Scottish roots are in the town of Dumfries and village of Tinwald.

• 7434 Temple Ct., Rockford, IL 61108, USA. (Email address and book price confirmed Oct. 25, 2018)
  Jay has written a major work: "Descendants of Thomas Dobie and Adam Scott Elliot; Early Settlers of Lanark County -- Pioneers of Bruce and Grey Counties."
  • It includes:
  • 1658 descendants of Thomas Dobie and Adam Scott Elliot through 7 generations - with spouses and spouses' parents, over 2500 people.
  • Photographs of the early generations in most lines.
  • 236 exhibits - obituaries, wedding announcements, news items, letters, etc.
  • Descendant charts through 2nd great grandchildren.
  The price now, including shipping, is CAD $70.00 for orders to Canada and US $47.00 for orders to the US. Other countries, please email Jay for shipping costs.

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  A small sampling of her Dobie line can be seen on this website -- see: Descendants of James Dobie and Agnes Brown.

People based mainly in Great Britain :

• -- Email address confirmed January 10, 2018.
  His line descends from Alexander Dobie and Janet Sloan, and his updated information can be seen as an appendix to Part One of the Gracie Tree.

• (Info updated January 3, 2017)
  Robert lives in the Liverpool area and is willing to try and help anyone researching the Dobie name. He has been researching his family for about five years, and so far knows that his great grandfather was Watson Dobie who by trade was a stone mason, born in 1860 in Liverpool and died in 1929. Watson's father was Robert Dobie who was born circa 1832 and was a baker, possibly died circa 1862. Robert's father was also called Robert, and his wife's maiden name was Isabella Boreland (married 16th November 1818). His father was George Dobie who married Agnes Johnston in 1794 in Kirkbean, Kirkudbright, Scotland. George`s parents were William Dobie and Jean Dalglish.
  To summarize:
  William Dobie and Jean Dalglish
  • George Dobie and Agnes Johnston (married 1794)
    • Robert Dobie and Isabella Boreland (married 1818)
      • Robert Dobie (1832-1862) and Harriet Davies (married 1853). Harriet was born in Gresford, North Wales.
        • Watson Dobie (1860-1927) and Minnie Jane Milner (1860-1942) (married 1879). Minnie was from Liverpool.

	Watson Dobie and Minnie Jane Milner, circa late 1890's.

People based mainly in Australia :

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  Her line is John Dobbie, son of William and Janet, born at St Quivox, Ayreshire Scotland in 1822. He migrated to Australia 1841 per Earl Gray, married Elizabeth Thomson in 1843 at Bathurst, Australia.
• Paul Dobie
  from Adelaide, South Australia. He has his own Dobie Family Website through which he can be contacted.

People based mainly in New Zealand :

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  We're looking for further information on Mary Dobbie, who married William Hanning, with whom she had a daughter, Jane, born 12 May 1792, probably in Glasgow, Scotland. Any information gratefully received.