 1721 - 1773 (52 years)
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| Name |
George Dobson [2] |
| Birth |
18 Jun 1721 |
Redcar, North Yorkshire, England  [2, 3] |
| Gender |
Male |
| FindAGrave URL |
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39619347 |
| FindAGrave ID |
39619347 |
| FamilySearch ID |
LVMZ-PFD |
| FamilySearch URL |
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LVMZ-PFD |
| Death |
Jul 1773 |
Point de Bute, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada [2] |
| Burial |
Fort Beausejour, Aulac, Westmoreland County, New Brunswick, Canada [4, 5] |
| Person ID |
I5103 |
Main |
| Last Modified |
29 Aug 2020 |
| Family |
Mary Barker, b. 1727, Yorkshire, England d. 1816, Point de Bute, Westmorland, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada (Age 89 years) |
| Marriage |
1745 |
Marske-By-Sea, Yorkshire, England [2] |
| Children |
| + | 1. Margaret Dobson, b. 3 Apr 1747, Arncliffe, Yorkshire, England d. 13 Apr 1832, Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada (Age 85 years) |
| | 2. George Dobson, b. 1751, Ingleby, Yorkshire, England d. 1809, Point de Bute, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada (Age 58 years) |
| | 3. David Dobson, b. 1753, Ingleby, Yorkshire, England d. 1840, Guysborough, Nova Scotia, Canada (Age 87 years) |
| | 4. Elizabeth Dobson, b. 1754, Thirsk, Yorkshire, England d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 5. Sarah Mary Dobson, b. 1767, Thirsk, Yorkshire, England d. 1856, Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada (Age 89 years) |
| | 6. Richard Dobson, b. 1769, Thirsk, Yorkshire, England d. 1855 (Age 86 years) |
| | 7. John Dobson d. Yes, date unknown |
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| Family ID |
F2006 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Sep 2009 |
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| Notes |
- From "History of Sackville"
"DOBSON FAMILY - The Dobson's George and Richard, two brothers, were among the first of the Yorkshire emigrants to arrive in Nova Scotia. George brought with him a wife and grown up family; his daughter Margaret married William Wells before the family left England. Richard was a bachelor and report says he was an officer in the English army stationed in Point de Bute, and a follower of Wesley. Richard died in February 1773 and George in July of the same year.
George had four sons, George, David, Richard and John and two unmarried daughters, Elizabeth and Mary. George and John settled in Point de Bute. John afterwards went to Sussex, N.B.; Richard to Cape Tormentine and David went to Halifax. John married Miss Polly Fawcett, of Upper Sackville. They had three sons and two daughters, John Dobson, Robert Dobson and Joseph Wells Dobson, Mary Dobson and Ann Dobson. Ann married John Brown. Joseph married Ruth Trenholm, and had two sons, John Trenholm Dobson, and George Arthur Dobson; John and Robert both married two Miss Burnhams (sisters); John married Mary Aiton and had four girls and one boy: Jean, Minnie, Joseph, Lulu, Jessie. Jean married Wm. Graham and they had two boys and two girls and live in Colorado Springs. Minnie married Will. Robinson and had Harvey, James, Joseph, Donald, George and Mary and they live at Sussex. Joseph emigrated to British Columbia. Lulu married Mr. Del. Chapman, 1902, and live in Boston. Jessie lives in Colorado Springs with her sister. George Arthur Dobson married Mary Eleanor Ryan. Their children are Annie, born 1867, married H. E. Gould. They have one son, George William, born 1896; and Cyrus Trenholm, born 1872, married 1902; Eleanor Miriam, born 1878.
Dr. Dobson, of Poughkeepsie, an able and distinguished physician, was a son of _____ Dobson. His summer home was on the Morse (of telegraphic fame) on the bank of the Hudson in the suburbs of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., his winter home was in Bermuda. He died in 1934. He married Miss Minnie Wilson, of Amherst. They left one son, a resident of Bermuda.
In the old graveyard at Fort Cumberland, long since abandoned, as a "city of the dead", there are one or two gravestones remaining there. They record the death of the two Dobson settlers.
The Memorial dated 26th June, 1809, of John and George Dobson, sons of George Dobson Sr. of Point de Bute, states:
"That they never had any land granted them from Government and are desirous of settling themselves in this part of the country, where by their care and industry they may be enabled to maintain their families with comfort. Therefore they humbly solicit your Excellency to order them a Warrant of Survey and allow them to occupy, improve and possess a lot of marsh land, lately petitioned for by Thomas Hewson, Esq. of this town whom we understand has given up the said lot. It is inclosed by the Westmorland big Batteau, but was not put in the dyking bill, it being considered not worth paying for it, without a good deal of improvements by ditching it lying close to Sunken Island between Westmorland and Sackville Township, and likewise a lot of wilderness land to contain 500 acres and being on the north side of Green Bay and joining to the lands granted to William Wood and John Polly, Your Memorialists humbly prayeth that your Excellency will take it into your serious consideration. " [6]
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| Sources |
- [SAuth] John Spencer Howell, Jr., John Spencer Howell, Jr., (http://www.jhowell.com/ jhowell@jhowell.com).
- [S1130] Martin Lund, http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1886623&id=I92903609.
- [S1149] Barb (Wells) Henderson, (hende262@aol.com, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada"), "June 18, 1721".
- [S1149] Barb (Wells) Henderson, (hende262@aol.com, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada"), "George died in July 1773 and is buried at Fort Beausejour (formerly called Fort Cumberland) close to the Nova Scotia and New Brunswick border.".
- [S1656] Findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39619347/george-dobson.
- [S1149] Barb (Wells) Henderson, (hende262@aol.com, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada"), http://www.immigrantships.net/1700/albion740307.html#Dobson.
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