One of the Bemisters of Ragged Harbour, Simeon, was a crew member on the Belle Hadden which was built in Ragged Harbour and was used to take produce to mining towns.
[2] Doting Cove had its first settlers by 1850, some of the families were the Abbotts, Cuffs, Haywards, Hickses, and Moulands.
Many of the settlers would go to the Wadham Islands to fish during the summer season.
However the Salvation Army made converts in Doting Cove first in the 1890s and the majority of Doting Cove's population became Salvation Army by the 1930s.
[citation needed] The 1911 census records Doting Cove's population as 458 and Ragged Harbours as 49.