Hilda Margaret Dobbin
ID # 4593, (1856-1929)
| Birth | Hilda Margaret Dobbin was born in 1856 at Palmyra, Missouri. |
| Marriage | She married William Beck, son of Jacob Freidrich Beck and Charlotte Josephine Hespeler, on 3 July 1876 at Guelph, Wellington Co., Ontario. Mrge reg. 011985-76 Guelph, Wellington County William Beck, 25, bachelor. Born Preston, residing Baden (Ontario), clerk, Lutheran. Parents Jacob Beck and Charlotte Hespeler. Maggie Dobbins, 21, spinster, Presbyterian. Born Palmyra, Missouri, U.S., residing Baden. Parents William Dobbins and Elizabeth Wilson. Witnesses Robert Dobbins, Petersburg, and Minnie D. Erb, Preston. On 34 July 1876 at Guelph, by John Hogg, D.D., minister. |
| Marriage | She married Robert G. Barbour, son of John Barbour and Isabella Gilholm, on 5 September 1898 at Village of Grimsby, Lincoln Co.. Mrge reg. 009228-98 Village of Grimsby, Lincoln Co. Robert G. Barbour, 43, bachelor, furniture dealer, Church of England. Born Galt, residing Hamilton. Parents John and Isabella Barbour. Hilda M. Beck, 42, widow, Church of England. Born Palmyra, U.S.A., residing Baden. Parents W. C. and Elizabeth D'Autrijne. Witnesses W. J. Baird of Galt and E. J. Jenkins of Grimsby. On Sept 5, 1898, by Rev. C. R. Lee, English Church minister, Grimsby. Rev. C. Russell Lee was rector of St. Andrew's Anglican church in Grimsby from 1892 to 1905. Rev. C. Russell Lee, the rector at St. Andrew's, married the couple by license as opposed to the publication of banns, so this does not appear to have been a church ceremony. The names Beck or D'Autrijne or anything similar do not appear in the available transcription of St. Andrew's cemetery burials so there was not likely a family connection to the Grimsby congregation. Grimsby, in this era, was a great holiday resort. |
| Death | She died on 13 July 1929 at Galt, Waterloo Co., Ontario. |
| Burial | She was buried on 15 July 1929 at Trinity Anglican Cemetery Galt. |
| Note | Hilda's married name was Beck at the time she married Robert Barbour. (See notes for Margaret's marriage to William Beck.) With the assemblage of documentation, we may safely say that Hilda had another given name, Margaret. She went by Margaret in her earlier years and Hilda in her later years. Beyond that, some information is conflicting. According to the registration of her marriage to Robert Barbour, her maiden name was D'Autrijne or something similar. The handwriting is difficult on the point and so the spelling is approximate. Since the approximation is also not correct, we won't belabour it here. Robert Barbour and Hilda 'Dobbin', so spelled, are buried in Trinity Anglican Cemetery in Galt and her maiden name is so shown on their gravestone. Hilda's death 1929 death registration also shows her maiden name as Dobbin. It's a guess, but the registrar at Grimsby probably had difficulty with the clergyman's handwriting, for, demonstrably, Hilda's maiden name was Dobbin We might be left wondering if remaining family were sure of the name Dobbin, but, according to the transcription done by the Waterloo Region branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society, next to Hilda and Robert is another Dobbin stone: In memory of Mary F. Dobbin/wife of Adam Murray/1840-1921. We may now say that Mary is Hilda's older sister, for Mary's parents are shown as William and Elizabeth on her marriage registration. Mary F. Dobbin appears with her parents, William and Elizabeth in the 1861 census in Waterloo Township. She, Mary, was a spinster when she married Adam Murray of Galt at Clifton (Niagara Falls) in 1880. Mary was residing in Berlin (Kitchener) at the time of her marriage to Adam. Mary is shown as being born in the United States. Adam Murray was a widower. The Dobbin family's 1861 enumeration is at the bottom of the page. There are three other Dobbin children in Waterloo Township at the top of another page, but not the next numbered page. The pages must have gotten enumerated out of order. The youngest of the children, Margaret, age 5, is, agewise, almost certainly Hilda, for she is shown as Hilda M. on her marriage registration. Beyond this, Ezra Eby, in his two volumes of the History of Waterloo Township records a number of Dobbin marriages without actually showing a history of the family. A further note here. See Early Ontario Newspaper Transcription Series, The Waterloo County Papers, Vol. 43, compiled by W. Craig Burtch, Global Heritage Press, Milton, 2012, The Berlin Daily Record, Vol. 15, June 1895 - August 1895, page 6, Death of Mrs. J. Beck of Detroit. This tells of the death of Mrs. Jacob Beck, formerly of Preston and Baden. It makes mention of her daughter Mrs J. F. Dickie. It also tells that she was a sister of the late Jacob Hespeler and an aunt of Mrs. J. E. Seagram. Mrs. Dickie, Louise, is buried with her brother William and her parents in section K of Preston Cemetery. Her parents are Charlotte Hespeler and Jacob Beck. With this information, and considering that Amelia Stiles Seagram was for a time step-mother to Robert G. Barbour, it's safe to say that Hilda Margaret Dobbin, who was first married to William Beck, knew her second husband Robert Barbour for many years. Death reg. 035815-29 Galt, Waterloo Co. Hilda Barbour died at Galt General Hospital on July 13, 1929. Age 66, widow, lady (retired), born Palmyra (Missouri) U.S.A. At place of death 50 years (?), in Ontario 60 years (?). Parents William C. Dobbin, born Providence, R.I., U.S.A., and Elizabeth N. Wilson, born Liverpool, England. Physician Dr. J. R. Smith, Galt. Informant C. E. A. Dowler, Water St. South, Galt. Burial at Galt July 15, 1929. |
| Last Edited | 29 Mar 2019 |