Ralph Ness Dobson

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Accountant.

• Occupation: commercial clerk, at the time of the census in June 1841. ¹⁰³ He was then living with his wife, their three children and his wife's brother and nephew at Traffic Street, Derby

• Occupation: clerk to lace merchant, at the time of the census in March 1851. ¹⁰⁴ He was then living on Mount Street, Nottingham with his wife, five children and their nephew

• Residence: New Street, West Bromwich, Staffordshire, at the time of the census in April 1861. ¹⁰⁵ He was then living with his wife and two adult children; no occupation was given.

• Occupation: bookkeeper, at the time of the census in April 1871. ¹⁰⁶ He was then living with his daughter at New Street, West Bromwich, Staffordshire

Ralph married Frances Goddard, daughter of Thomas Goddard and Frances Foster, on 11 Jul 1834 in Ilkeston, Derbys.⁹⁶ (Frances Goddard was born circa 1810 in Brompton, Kent ^107,108,109.)