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M Richard Dobbyn

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Information from Ronald Cox's Ancestors, Cousins and their allied families, RootsWeb WorldConnect Project.

1861 personal census, Euphemia Twp, Lambton Co., ON, transcribed by the Lambton Branch of the OGS:
Dobbyn Richard, M, Married, 65, born Ire, EM, Farmer, L24 C2;
Maria, F, Married, 64, born Ire, EM;
Maria J., F, Single, 10, born USA, EM;
Grayson Mary, F, Widowed, 34, born U.C., EM;
Richard L., M, Single, 18, born U.C., EM;
William, M, Single, 17, born U.C., EM;
Margaret, F, Single, 8, born U.C., EM;
Mary M., F, Single, 6, born U.C, EM;
Albert, M, Married, 4, born U.C., EM;
James, M, Single, 2, born U.C., EM.

1881 personal census, Euphemia Twp, Lambton Co., ON, LDS 1881 census household record:
Dobbyn Richard, M, Widowed, 86, born Ireland, origin: Irish, E. Methodist;
John, M, Married, 61, born Ont, origin: Irish, C. Methodist, Lumberman;
Jane, F, Married, 57, born Ont, origin: Scottish, C. Methodist;
Charles, M, 28, born Ont, origin: Irish, C. Methodist, Lumberman;
Edward, M, 26, born Ont, origin: Irish, C. Methodist, Lumberman.

Headstone Shetland Cemetery, Euphemia Twp, Lambton Co., ON, transcribed by the Lambton Branch of the OGS:
Maria wife of R. Dobbyn Sr. died Dec. 11, 1869 ae 73 yrs.
Richard Dobbyn Sr. died Jan. 26, 1882 ae 88 yrs, 11 mo's & 16 d's.

Euphemia Township History 1849-1999, Euphemia Township Historical Society, 1999, p.286-289:
Richard Dobbyn Family
The Dobbyns are of Irish and French extraction, with the name originally spelled D'Aubyne. Richard Dobbyn's father owned an estate in the County of Wexford, Ireland, known as Dobbyn's Flowery Vale.
During the Rebellion of 1798, Mr. Dobbyn Sr., with many other men, was imprisoned in a barn for refusing to forsake the Protestant faith. He managed to conduct his family to safety but was one of 221 victims who were burned in the barn at Scullabogue. His wife and daughter died shortly afterwards but his two sons, Richard and Henry, immigrated to Canada to escape such persecutions.
Richard Dobbyn (1794-1883) was educated in Dublin, Ireland and taught school. On April 20, 1815, he married Maria Bobier (1796-1869). The Catholics had confiscated his father's estate, so the young couple decided to come to Canada. Richard sailed first; Maria was to follow in a few months. Richard was tricked into taking passage on a pirate ship. After two months' imprisonment, Richard managed to escape through a porthole and swam three miles to the safety of an American ship. A month later, Richard was in Montreal, in time to meet his wife. They came via New York to Tryconnell, arriving before 1820. Several years later, they moved to Zone Township (now Euphemia) settling on Lot 26, Con. 2.
Henry Dobbyn (brother of Richard) married Elizabeth Bobier, daughter of Gregory Bobier and Martha Willis. He was mentioned in the history of Tyrconnell as sponsor at a baptism in Col. Talbot's home in 1820. Henry and Elizabeth settled in Howard Township.
Richard Dobbyn was one of the early teachers in Shetland, and was also a magistrate for many years. Richard served as the first reeve of Euphemia Township in 1850. Richard and Maria had 13 children, eight of whom lived to adulthood. Their five sons built homesteads in the Shetland area. In 1999, only two of the original Dobbyn homes are still standing.
John Dobbyn was the eldest in the family (1820-1911). He married Jane Laird and they farmed at Lot 24, Con 2 until moving to Manitoba in 1882...
Elizabeth Dobbyn (1821-1901) married Rev. Wentworth Hughson and lived at Delaware, Middlesex County...
Richard Dobbyn Jr. (1822-1903) married Elizabeth Laird (1830-1858), and after her death, married her sister Maria Laird (1821-1900). They farmed Lot 27, Con 3, ... Richard and Maria did not have any children. Richard and Elizabeth had four children: Charles Sylvester Dobbyn (1849), Alexander Richard Dobbyn (1851), Lorinda Jane Dobbyn (1853) and Mary Louisa Dobbyn (1856).
William Dobbyn (1824-1917) married Francenna Davis (1833-1855), and then Ellen Gosnell (1840-1915) in 1857. He farmed on Lot 25, Con. 3, ...William and Francenna had three children. William E. Dobbyn (1850) married Lucena Maria Woodhull and moved to Minnesota. The other children were Maria Jane Dobbyn (1852) and Thomas Henry Dobbyn (1853). William and Ellen (Gosnell) had seven children: Anne, Laura, Elizabeth, Sarah, Joseph, Harriet and Franklin... Anne Dobbyn (1858) died in infancy. Laura Althea Dobbyn (1859-1927) married John Lewis Livingston and moved to Minnesota. Elizabeth Caroline Dobbyn married William Cochrane and moved to California. Sarah Ann Dobbyn (1862-1866) died as a youngster. Joseph Henry Dobbyn (1863-1953) married Elizabeth Moorhouse (1872-1953), daughter of Edward Charles and Margaret (Price) Moorhouse, and they farmed Lot 25, Con. 3 and had 10 children...Harriet Dobbyn (1865-1872) died as a youngster. Franklin Wesley Dobbyn (1872-1931) married Clare McNeil and moved to Minnesota...
James Dobbyn (1824-1917) married Agnes Dolsen (1824-1908) and farmed Lot 26, Con. 2, ... They had seven children: Ida, Jacob, Sara, Marion, James, Ella and Mary... Sara Armaretta Dobbyn (1858-1874) died as a teenager. Marion Edith Ladonia (1859-1946) married David Graham in 1918, and they lived in Shetland. Ella Theresa Dobbyn (1864-1931) married John Henry Powell. Mary Janette Dobbyn (1866-1941) married William James Dolsen and lived in Raleigh Township...James Douglas Dobbyn Jr. (1862-1946), ... married Anna Powell (d. 1955) in 1890. They built a new home on Lot 26, Con. 2, which still stands today. James Jr. and Anna farmed the home farm. They had three children: Agnes, Marguerite and Roland...
Mary Anne Dobbyn (1829-1863), daughter of Richard and Maria, married Alex Dolsen and lived in Raleigh Township, Kent County.
...Thomas Dobbyn (1831-1909), married Lorenda Laird (1834-1931), daughter of George and Winnifred (Scarlett) Laird, in 1856. They farmed Lot 26, Con. 3, ... and were the parents of six children: Dolsen, Eliza, Annie, Winnifred, Alfred and Ida...
Martha Emily Dobbyn (1838-1862) married Gilbert Dolsen and lived near Chatham.
Henry Dobbyn (1852-1825), and namesakes Henry (1826-1826) and Henry (1832-1832), all died in infancy as did Maria Jane Dobbyn (1837-1837).

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Lambton Ontario, J.H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1907; p.268:
Thomas Dobbyn, a highly respected retired farmer of Euphemia township, County of Lambton, makes his home in the pleasant town of Florence. He was born in Euphemia township, April 21, 1831, son of Richard and Mariah (Bobier) Dobbyn, among the very earliest pioneers of Euphemia.
The parents of our subject were both born in Ireland, and came to Canada as early as 1820. Richard Dobbyn was a man well-educated in the old country, and when a young man had run away from home to enlist on a man-of-war, sailing in the West Indian Islands and South American countries. He deserted the man-of-war, in some of the West Indian Islands, and made his escape to Quebec. Coming west to Lake Erie, he engaged with Colonel Jarvot, as surveyor and land agent, afterward marrying Miss Bobier, in the town of Castlecomer, County of Kilkenny, Ireland. He then came to Euphemia township, locating there in 1820. He received land from Colonel Talbot on the 3rd Concession, Lot 25, where he started life as a farmer and school teacher. He taught school for twelve years, his sons doing most of the farming. He was a magistrate for many years, and was one of the first men to identify himself with the affairs of the township after it had been located. Mrs. Dobbyn died at the old home in 1869, at the age of seventy years, while her husband survived until 1878, when he passed away at the home of one of his daughters, while on a visit, being in his eighty-third year. Mr. and Mrs. Dobbyn were among the early founders of the Methodist Church in this section, in which he was an active worker and officer. Politically he was a Reformer, and was always prominently identified with that party. They were blessed with a large family as follows: John, born in 1821, is a resident of the Northwest, and well known in business circles of Manitoba towns. Eliza, born in 1823, married the Rev. Wentworth Hughson, a local minister of Delaware, both of whom are now deceased. Richard, born in 1826, died in 1903. William was born in 1828. Mary Anne, born in 1829, married the late Alexander Dolsen, of Chatham, Kent County. James, born in 1827, died in Manitoba, while on a visit to that country in 1889. Emily, born in 1836, married Gilbert Dolsen, and settled in Kent County, where she died a number of years ago. Thomas is our subject. These have all left large and worthy families.
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Commemorative Biographical Record of Kent County, Ontario, J.H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, pg. 537-538:
... Gilbert Dolsen was born on the place where he now lives, Oct. 19, 1830, and had but the educational advantages supplied by the district schools of his neighbourhood. He recalls that as a boy he figured out his "sums" in the ashes, on the kitchen heartstone. At the age of fourteen years he was given the opportunity to attend school at Florence under Richard Dobbyn, which he eagerly embraced, and there completed his education...
Mr. Dolsen was married (first) to Emily Dobbyn, daughter of Richard Dobbyn, who died Oct. 27, 1862,, aged twenty-four years and three months. To this union were born four children: Maria Annetta, who married Rev. John Lacock, of Manitoba, and is the mother of twelve children; Emily, who died young; Richard Colburn, born March 28, 1859, and died May 10, 1882; and William, who died May 23, 1862, aged five months and five days...

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James Dobbyn ca 1768-1798   Elizabeth Langford ca 1768-
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Richard Dobbyn 1794-1882