Claim: Dobson was born neither in the small fishing village of Keiss nor in Caithness, then in the 1890s, Dobson had moved to the Cardiff Docks area where he had become a coal trimmer.
Evidence: Dobson was born in the small fishing village of Keiss in Caithness, Scotland, but by 1873 his family is living in the Pontypridd area of Wales.