' Rev. Charles es ey Dockrill Davis 001/ 
     
    
   
   
    
     Recommended by the Saint John District, this twenty-three year old 
     
     volunteer was received on trial in 1866 and ordained in 1870. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In 1867, he transfered into the West Cape Circuit until 1869, at which time 
     
     he was at Musquidoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia. His last pastorate in Canada was 
     
     at Welsford, New Brunswick, 1872 - 1875. 
     
    
   
   
    
     His first wife was Harriet M.H. Golding, daughter of Robert and Frances 
     
     Caroline Golding of Saint John, New Brunswick. They married on 20 July 1870 
     
     and had one child, Bertha Caroline, born on 8 May 1871. His first wife died on 
     
     18 July 1874, and is buried in the Golding lot at Fernhill Cemetery, Saint John. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A year later, Reverend Dockrill married a younger sister of his first wife, 
     
     Frances Caroline (Carrie) Golding, at Saint John, on 28 July 1875. To them were 
     
     born four children, Harriet Florence Evelyn at Boston, Massachusetts, 23 
     
     November 1876; Edna A. Warren, New Hampshire, 12 June 1879; Anna Wilmah 
     
     also at Warren, New Hampshire, 18 April 1882; and Charles Edwin at Newport, 
     
     New Hampshire, 19 September 1892. Only three of his children lived to adulthood 
     
     — Harriet, Anna Wilmah, and Charles. The saddest funerals of all must have been 
     
     those of his daughter, Bertha, 5 April 1901, and his second wife only a week later 
     
     12 April 1901. They are both buried at Bellevue Cemetery, Lawrence, 
     
    
   
   
    
     Massachusetts. 
     
    
   
   
    
     It is my belief that the year of 1875 to 1876 may have been spent in study in 
     
     the Boston area, as Reverend Dockrill’s pastoral history in the United States 
     
     begins in 1876 at East Haverhill District, Massachusetts. He held many pastorates 
     
    
   
   
    
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