Ralph
Boyd
Dobson
Born in New Zealand
Ancestors 
Son of Robert Dobson
and Clara (Potts) Dobson
Brother of
Ella May (Dobson) McKinnon, Ruby Viola Dobson, Robert Ambrose Dobson, Clara (Dobson) Meares, Edith Dobson and Donald Dobson
Husband of
Rhoda Mary (Graham) Dobson
— married
10 Oct 1906 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Robert Graham Dobson, Ralph Graham Dobson, Malcolm Graham Dobson, Dorothy Mary Graham (Dobson) O'Neill and Dennis Ambrose Dobson
Died about
at about age 88
in New Zealand
Profile last modified
| Created 7 Feb 2013
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Biography
Ralph was born in 1879.[1] He was the son of Robert Dobson and Clara Potts.
In the same year he married Rhoda, Ralph went into a partnership with Rhoda's father, Andrew Graham, as Graham and Dobson, Chartered Accountants. The Company still exists today and in the course of its 106 year history has had both Ralph's son, Malcolm, and grandson, Paul, as Partners.
He passed away in 1968 and was buried (February 2, 1968) in the Taruheru Cemetery in Gisborne, NZ.
Sources
- ↑ Birth Registration: "New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1966", citing Birth, New Zealand, registration number 1880/3061, Archives of New Zealand, Wellington, FamilySearch Record: Q24V-VJ4X (accessed 30 September 2023) https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/Search/Search.aspx?Path=%2FqueryEntry.m%3Ftype%3Dbirths, Ralph Boyd Dobson birth 1880 in New Zealand, child of Robert Dobson & Clara Dobson.
- Graham & Dobson, Chartered Accountants (Company History)
Acknowledgments
- Thanks to Peter Knowles for starting this profile.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ralph by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Ralph:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ralph by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Ralph:
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~3.12%
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