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Joseph Nelson Goucher, also known as Eddie Dowling

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Joseph Nelson Goucher, also known as Eddie Dowlingcover of programme from "The Rainbow Man"

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Review: "Honeymoon Lane" in 1931, Left to right: 1. Joseph Nelson Goucher, also known as Eddie Dowling; 2. Adolf Milar; 3. Mary Carr.

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Joseph Nelson Goucher, also known as Eddie Dowling

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Shared by Carolyn (Lee) Kelly on 12 Jan 2013. This is in front of the Memorial which faces Mendon Road, Rt 122... Rear side contains several siblings of Eddie Dowling (originally Joseph Goucher) and his parents. Note the two different spellings of the Goucher/Gaucher surname on rear side of the memorial - CLK,

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Shared by Carolyn (Lee) Kelly on 12 Jan 2013. This is the rear side of the Dowling Memorial - the front is facing Mendon Road, Rt 122, in the background of this photo. Note his parents and two brothers, Charles E & William F & sister, Marion... CLK

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Shared by PeterboroughK on 5 May 2008 Joseph Nelson Goucher, also known as Eddie Dowling

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Joseph Nelson Goucher, also known as Eddie Dowling, cover of music for song "Sleepy Valley" from musical review, "The Rainbow Man"

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Joseph Nelson Goucher, also known as Eddie Dowling

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Joseph Nelson Goucher, also known as Eddie Dowling, playbill cover for musical "Paint Your Wagon" in 1951

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Joseph Nelson Goucher, also known as Eddie Dowling, playbill for musical "Paint Your Wagon" in 1951

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Joseph Nelson Goucher, also known as Eddie Dowling, playbill for musical "Paint Your Wagon" in 1951

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Joseph Nelson Goucher, also known as Eddie Dowling cover of music for "Put a Little Salt on the Bluebird's Tail" from "Blaze of Glory"

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Joseph Nelson Goucher, also known as Eddie Dowling. Wife and Actor Ray Dooley shown on cover of Review programme

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Joseph Nelson Goucher, also known as Eddie Dowling adb wife Rachel Ray Dooley at Lagardia airport, New York in 1945

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Joseph Nelson Goucher, also known as Eddie Dowling and his wife Rachel Ray Dooley

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A superb original 6x8 ink and watercolor painting by Griffith of Hollywood of Eddie Dowling, the original star of "Harvey; who signed this in 1930."

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SLEEPY VALLEY sheet music from Sono-Art talking picture THE RAINBOW MAN starring Eddie Dowling Harms Inc. 1929

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The Rainbow Man featuring Eddie Dowling from 1929. The cover describes it as the newest all-talking and musical picture. Contains 3 songs.

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Dreams for Sale by Dowling and Hanley was a song used in the musical "Honeymoon Lane". This was released as a movie by Paramount Pictures in 1931.

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Welcome Home was published in 1930.

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Classic advertisment approx. size is 5 x 13.5 of the distinguished star of "The Glass Menagerie" advertising shaving cream in 1946!

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Caricature of Eddie Dowling from the 1947 National Broadcasting Company (NBC) Television show 'The Big Break'

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1. [S977] SOURCE: (Full): Ancestry.com,
   Source Combined Fields: United States, Selective Service System. ;World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918</i>. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M1509, 4,582 rolls. Imaged from Family History Library microfilm.,
   Repository: Internet Service: Ancestry.com,
   Citation Detail: Database online. Roll 1852217, DraftBoard 0.,
   Citation Text: Record for Joseph Nelson Goucher
   
   
   

   Joseph Nelson Goucher - World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918

   Database online. Roll 1852217, DraftBoard 0.
2. [S1001] SOURCE: (Full): Ancestry.com,
   Source Combined Fields: <p>United States, Selective Service System. ;Selective Service Registration Cards, World War II: Fourth Registration</i>. Records of the Selective Service System, Record Group Number 147. National Archives and Records Administration.
   ;

   ;<a href="##SearchUrlPrefix##/search/dbextra.aspx?dbid=1002">Full Source Citation</a>.

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   Repository: Internet Service: Ancestry.com,
   Citation Detail: Database online.,
   Citation Text: Record for Joseph Nelson Goucher
   
   
   

   Joseph Nelson Goucher - U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942

   Database online.
3. [S2653] SOURCE: (Full),
   Source Combined Fields: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZB2-LTY,
   Repository: Internet Service: Family Search,
   Citation Detail: Record for JOSEPH NELSON GOUCHER,
   Citation Text: Gender: Male ; Birth Date: 11 Dec 1889 ; Birthplace: Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island ; Father's Name: Charles ; Mother's Name: Bridget Dowling
   
   
   

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4. [S2651] SOURCE: (Full),
   Source Combined Fields: Goacher. Privately held by Roger Goacher.
   
   Roger Goacher; Guild of One Name Studies Member 2839; Contact: 5 Oct 2019; 8 Oct 2019,
   Citation Detail: E-mails regarding EDDIE DOWLING,
   Citation Text: Dear Brian
   Thank you for your reply.
   I have recently been researching Rhode Island Gouchers, having come across a recent obituary for someone who I couldn’t trace in any of my existing trees. Joseph Nelson Goucher, aka Eddie Dowling, came up in these researches.
   There is a wealth of material online about Eddie’s life and work, but some of the information is contradictory. The Wikipedia has a number of inaccuracies and questionable facts.
   “….he was the 14th of 17 children..” He was actually the third of five known children of his parents. His mother may have had other pregnancies, that didn’t result in live births; but not, I think, 17 pregnancies, and certainly not another 12 before Eddie’s birth. Don’t know where these figures came from.
   “Some sources give his middle name as "Narcisse".” His grandfather’s name was ‘Narcisse’. All the material I have gathered says he middle name was ‘Nelson’.
   “Dowling was married to ….. Rachel Rice Dooley.” There is some doubt as to her name. The online New York marriage index shows ‘Joseph N Goucher’ marrying ‘Ray D Graham’ and/or ‘Ray Dooley’. The census records show her first name as ‘Rachel’ so that seems correct, but her son has the second name ‘Graham’. Presumably the confusion over Rachel’s surname could be resolved by obtaining a copy of the marriage certificate.
   John Graham Goucher was born three years before Eddie and Rachel married. I wonder if Rachel (or Rae has she appears to have been known) was previously married. Perhaps her maiden name was ‘Dooley’, and she was married to someone called ‘Graham’, or vice versa. Was John Eddie’s son or a product of a previous marriage? Presumably this could only be resolved by finding his birth certificate.
   Eddie and Rachel’s daughter Maxine was born about 21 years after their son John, when Rachel was 42 – menopausal baby?
   “Jack Dowling died serving in the World War II.” No! He did serve in WW2, and was a reporter, held by the Russian for a while, after the war, as the US Congressional Record shows. But he was a member of Time-Life organization staff when he was killed in a plane crash in 1955 in Paraguay.
   Although John Graham Goucher, aka Jack Dowling, had a son, I haven’t followed this up, as they are no longer part of my ONS.
   Eddie was so well known, that when his mother Bridget Dowling Goucher died in 1933, floral tributes were received from Governor Lehman of New York and President and Mrs Roosevelt.
   I am attaching my Family Sheets for Eddie and his parents so you can see the information I have and my sources. If you can’t ready the files, or want copies of any of the material I have collected, please let me know.
   Best wishes
   Roger Goacher
   Researching Goacher and variants any time any where
   
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   ;<i>Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1897. Microfilm Publication M237, 675 rolls. NAI: <a href="http://research.archives.gov/description/6256867"; target="_blank">6256867</a>. Records of the U.S. Customs Service, Record Group 36. National Archives at Washington, D.C.

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   ;<i>Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957. Microfilm Publication T715, 8892 rolls. NAI: <a href="http://research.archives.gov/description/300346"; target="_blank">300346</a>. Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service; National Archives at Washington, D.C.

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   ;<i>Supplemental Manifests of Alien Passengers and Crew Members Who Arrived on Vessels at New York, New York, Who Were Inspected for Admission, and Related Index, compiled 1887-1952. Microfilm Publication A3461, 21 rolls. NAI: <a href="http://research.archives.gov/description/3887372"; target="_blank">3887372.</a> RG 85, Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service; National Archives, Washington, D.C.

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   ;<i>Index to Alien Crewmen Who Were Discharged or Who Deserted at New York, New York, May 1917-Nov. 1957. Microfilm Publication A3417. NAI: <a href="http://research.archives.gov/description/4497925"; target="_blank">4497925.</a> National Archives at Washington, D.C.

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   ;<i>Passenger Lists, 1962-1972, and Crew Lists, 1943-1972, of Vessels Arriving at Oswego, New York. Microfilm Publication A3426. NAI: <a href="http://research.archives.gov/description/4441521"; target="_blank">4441521.</a> National Archives at Washington, D.C.

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   Repository: Internet Service: Ancestry.com,
   Citation Detail: Database online.,
   Citation Text: Record for Nelson Goucher
   
   
   

   Nelson Goucher - New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957

   Database online.
6. [S1031] SOURCE: (Full): Ancestry.com,
   Source Combined Fields: http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=USpassports&h=1155022&indiv=try,
   Repository: Internet Service: Ancestry.com,
   Citation Detail: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington D.C.; Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925; Collection Number: ARC Identifier 583830 / MLR Number A1 534; NARA Series: M1490; Roll #: 2568,
   Citation Text: Record for Nelson Goucher
   
   
   

   Nelson Goucher - U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925

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7. [S2660] SOURCE: (Full),
   Source Combined Fields: https://archive.org/details/New_York_State_Marriage_Index_1919/page/n568,
   Repository: Internet Service: Reclaim the Records - www-archive.org,
   Citation Detail: Record for JOSEPH N GOUCHER to RAY GRAHAM,
   Citation Text: 31 Mar 1919 - Albany
   
   
   

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8. [S427] SOURCE: (Full): Ancestry.com,
   Source Combined Fields: Gale Research Company, Biography and Genealogy Master Index, Detroit, MI, USA: Gale Research Company, 2005,
   Repository: Internet Service: Ancestry.com,
   Citation Detail: Database online.,
   Citation Text: Record for Eddie Dowling
   
9. [S973] SOURCE: (Full): Ancestry.com,
   Source Combined Fields: -PROJECT- United States of America. Social Security Administration (SSA). Social Security Death Index.
   
   Record set: Social Security Death Index; Category: Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records; Subcategory: Civil Deaths & Burials; Collections from: Americas, United States,
   Repository: Internet Service: Ancestry.com,
   Citation Detail: Database online.,
   Citation Text: Record for Eddie Dowling
   
10. [S1447] SOURCE: (Full),
    Source Combined Fields: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6808898/eddie-dowling,
    Citation Detail: Record for EDDIE DOWLING,
    Citation Text: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 14 October 2019), memorial page for Eddie Dowling (9 Dec 1889–18 Feb 1976), Find A Grave Memorial no. 6808898, citing Saint Josephs Cemetery, Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA ; Maintained by Peterborough K (contributor 46537737) .
    
11. [S5252] SOURCE: (Full),
    Source Combined Fields: https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=USC%2F1900%2F004120526%2F00692&parentid=USC%2F1900%2F004120526%2F00692%2F033,
    Citation Detail: Census for GOUCHER, CHARLES E household of Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America. Nara Series: 1241510; Record ID: USC/1900/004120526/00692/033; First name(s) Last name Relationship Marital status Gender Age Birth year Birth place Charles E Goucher Self Married Male 43 1857 Canada Bridget Goucher Wife Married Female 42 1858 Rhode Island Charles E Goucher Son Single Male 18 1882 Rhode Island William F Goucher Son Single Male 17 1883 Rhode Island Nelson Goucher Son Single Male 11 1889 Rhode Island Henry Goucher Son Single Male 5 1895 Massachusetts Ellen M Goucher Daughter Single Female 1 1899 Rhode Island,
    Citation Text: Collated by Brian Thomas Dowling (1955-) for Dowling One-Name Study on 28 July 2023 at Record Transcription: Us Census 1900 | findmypast.co.uk, Findmypast. Transcript: https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=USC/1900/004120526/00692/033
    
    
    

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12. [S992] SOURCE: (Full): Ancestry.com,
    Source Combined Fields: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. ;Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930</i>. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls.,
    Repository: Internet Service: Ancestry.com,
    Citation Detail: Database online. Queens, Queens, New York, ED 910, roll 1594, page , image 199.0.,
    Citation Text: Record for Joseph N Goucher
    
    
    

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    Database online. Queens, Queens, New York, ED 910, roll 1594, page , image 199.0.
13. [S3881] SOURCE: (Full),
    Source Combined Fields: https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=USC%2F1940%2F005458707%2F00584&parentid=USC%2F1940%2F1553358403,
    Citation Detail: Record for EDDIE DOWLING household of New York City, Queens, New York, United States of America (across two pages),
    Citation Text: First name(s); Last name; Relationship; Marital Status; Gender; Age; Birth year; Birth place;
    Eddie; Dowling; Head; Married; Male; 44; 1896; Rhode Island;
    Rachel; Dowling; Wife; Married; Female; 42; 1898; Scotland;
    John G; Dowling; Son; Single; Male; 23; 1917; Pennsylvania;
    Maxine; Dowling; Daughter; Single; Female; 3; 1937; New York;
    Lottie; Sabat; Maid servant; Married; Female; 27; 1913; New York;
    Martha; Wurr; Maid servant; Single; Female; 25; 1915; Germany;
    Wing; Ruth; Head; Married; Female; 59;-; Ohio;
    -; Ye;; Son; Single; Male; 38; -; Sna Francisco;
    Goucher; Walter; Nephew; Single; Male; 27; 1912; Rhode Island
    NARA series: T627; NARA roll: 2735,
    
    
    

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14. [S2674] SOURCE: (Full),
    Source Combined Fields: DOWLING. Privately held by Beth Hurd, USA.
    
    Contact: 29 Oct 1999,
    Citation Detail: 1:- -----Original Message----- From: Beth Hurd (mailto:email address) - Sent: 29 October 1999 02:42; To: Brian Dowling - Subject: RE: Eddie DOWLING,
    Citation Text: Hi, Brian - let's try this again... I just wrote a nice long email to you, then my mail program crashed... Thanks for writing back - Here's the info from Eddie Dowling's gravestone (a friend wrote the info
    down for me):
    
    The front of the stone says Dowling and Goucher.On the front of the stone is just the name Eddie Dowling and the year 1976. then it says, his wife, Rae Dooley 1984. On the back of the stone is Lawrence A. Maytum 1901 - 1972, his wife, Marion Goucher 1899 - 1990. Also Emma M. Goucher 1889 - 1979, wife of Charles E. Then it says Charles E. Goucher, 1857 - 1926. Bridget, his wife, 1858 - 1933. (I'm guessing Emma was wife # 2 ) Also listed is Charles E. Goucher 1882 - 1970 William F. Goucher 1884 - 1960. they are all buried in St Joseph's Cemetery in Berkeley, Cumberland, RI, on Mendon Rd. Eddie Dowling was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, December 9th, 1894 and died February 18, 1976, at the age of 81.
    
    And, a coincidence, there was a photo of Eddie Dowling in last Sunday's local newspaper with this caption: "Ruth Hussey (right) of stage and Eddie Dowling, R.I.-born theatrical producer, participate in the dedicatory program of The Providence Journal's FM station, WPJB-FM, in 1948."
    
    The road named for him is called "The Eddie Dowling Highway", or Rt. 146 in North Smithfield, RI. found these tidbits on the internet, after searching on "Eddie Dowling": he was an amateur juggler.... ....the original Iceman in 1946, directed by Eddie Dowling, with James Barton as Hickey and Dudley Digges as Harry Hope, ...
    working in The Alamo, a Harlem nightclub, with Eddie Jackson and Lou Clayton, forming the team of Clayton, Jackson and Durante. Even after the decline of vaudeville, Coots continued to perform in nightclubs. I'll write more, as I find more info.... and I'll look up Eddie's parents' names next trip to the RI Archives - maybe I can get a few generations of names, of both "Dowling" and "Dooley" - and, with any luck, perhaps I'll find a link to my own "DOOLING" ancestors!!! - Beth Hurd Johnston, RI USA email address
    
15. [S2679] SOURCE: (Full),
    Source Combined Fields: http://www.dvrbs.com/people/CamdenShowbiz-Tydeman&Dooley.htm,
    Citation Detail: Record for Webpage 20 Oct 2019 titled: The Dooleys ******** Tydeman & Dooley,
    Citation Text: TYDEMAN & DOOLEY were a pair of comedic acrobats who starred on the B.F. Keith vaudeville circuit in the 1900s and 1910s. Vincent A. Tydeman grew up in Camden, New Jersey, USA, and also had a long career as a minor league baseball player. After retiring from baseball and the stage he remained a Camden resident until his passing in 1975. The Tydeman family lived in North and East Camden though at least the late 1970s, and were on Howell Street for many years.
    
    The Dooleys were a family act, and at least one of the Dooley brothers lived in Camden for many years. The family name was originally Dool. As of this writing, I'm not sure which of the three Dooley brothers was Vincent Tydeman's partner, but I suspect it was either Johnny Dooley or Billy Dooley, Billy was the oldest, and is the more likely of the two. The third brother, Gordon Dooley, would have been too young. It may well have been that Tydeman's partner was the Dooley father, Robert Rogers Dool, which would explain the clown makeup in the photographs attached to the father Robvert Dool - Dooley.
    
    Journalist Dan McConnell, who had grown up in the same neighborhood and had worked as a publicist for the Keith circuit in the 1910s wrote about the Dooleys in the late 1930s, as did Gordon Mackay, while working for the Courier. North Camden barber Pat Iarossi, who had a shop for many years at North Third Street told the following to Mackay in early 1938:
    
    "I used to cut Ann Pennington’s hair when she was a child," Pat recalled. "And the Dooleys always made my shop their headquarters. Billy Dooley worked for me. The kids, six ( FIVE to be correct- PMC ) of them, trained in a patch we called the 'cow lot’. Rae and Mae were the two girls, while Johnny was the big shot of the boys.”
    “They used to turn cartwheels right out in the lot there and come into my shop to do a little vocal rehearsing. Ann Pennington was always dancing, you couldn't keep her feet still. I remember one day Ann, Johnny Dooley and a girl named Moore went over to Lubin's in Philadelphia, trying to break into the movies.
    “Lubin wouldn’t handle them and they all came crying into my shop.”
    
    In March of 2007 an e-mail came to this website from John Vaughan, grandson of Mae Dooley and great-nephew of the Ray Dooley and the Dooley brothers. John wrote at length about the his family's show-business legacy.
    "The Dooley's came to America in the late 1800's from Glasgow, Scotland and settled in Philly. The boys were named Johnny, Billy, and Gordon. The girls were named Ray and Mae. Their father, (my great grandfather) was named Robert Rogers Dooley, he was a famous Irish circus clown, and he married Mary Dool (actually Mary Docherty), from Glasgow, who was nicked named Mumsie.
    The five kids all had an act, all did comedy, and the girl Mae, also sang. The went out on the road and toured a lot. Once, when they were all older, they played in Portsmouth, Virginia. Mae fell in love with a man she met there. They decided to get married, Mae dropped out of show business, the two of them moved back to Philly, and they had a baby boy in May of 1917. They named the child William Jonathan Dooley Vaughan. That child would grow up and become my father. That is my connection to the Dooley family.
    The boys continued as a group and were headliners in their day. Doing mainly slap stick comedy. They stared in many comedy plays plus The Ziegfield Follies, George White Scandals and The Earl Carroll Vanities. We are talking early 1900's till after WWI into the early 1920's.
    The girl, Ray (also spelled Rae sometimes), split off on her own and became a very big star, also on Broadway as an Actor and a comedienne. She performed in many musicals and also in the Follies and Vaudeville.
    
    Her greatest fame came when she did a "kid act" together with W.C. Fields in The Ziegfield Follies in 1920 & 1921. It was based on this act that W.C. Fields got his reputation as a "kid hater". The Actor, Fanny Brice, who also worked with Ray and W.C., later stole the act for herself and called it Baby Snooks. Among other stars of the day, Ray Dooley later went on and performed together with Bob Hope (then called by his real name, Lester Hope) in the smash hit Broadway musical "The Sidewalks Of New York" in 1928.
    
    Ray married a man named Eddie Dowling in 1931 (I think that was the year). He was famous in the business...a song and dance man, actor. director, producer, song writer (among other hits, he wrote "On The Side Walks Of New York"), and Pulitzer Prize Winner. He also introduced Tennessee Williams to Broadway in The Glass Menagerie.
    
    My father's mother, Mae Dooley Vaughan died in 1947 in Philly. My father, who died in 1993, never knew how old his parents were for some strange reason! Ray died in 1984 in East Hampton, New York, she was 88 (Newspapers say 93- PMC). The three boys all married show girls and all died young. Johnny died in 1928, he was 41, Billy (William) died in 1921, he was 39, and Gordon died in 1930, he was 31. Gordon Dooley was the only one of the five kids who was born in America, in the year 1899. The others were all born in Glasgow."
    
    Their father, Robert Rogers Dooley, also died young, of apoplexy just after son Gordon Dooley's marriage in 1922. That same year, Johnny Dooley was featured in the movie When Knighthood Was in Flower. Starring Marion Davies, it was the leading movie at the box-office of the 1922-1923 movie season. At at the time it was produced it was the most expensive movie ever made with cost an estimated at $1.8 million. The film was the pet project of the famous media magnate William Randolph Hearst.
    
    Interestingly enough, the Dooley family is still involved in show business. John Vaughan, who has been living in Berlin, Germany for many years, is a singer, songwriter, and composer. You can find out more about John at his website www.john-vaughan.com.
    If anyone has any further information about this act, PLEASE e-mail me! - Phil Cohen email address
    
    
    

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16. [S2695] SOURCE: (Full),
    Source Combined Fields: Knickerbocker Theatre, -, -. "Theatre Programme for "Sidewalks of New York"". Document Image. 1927. Dowling; Dooley.,
    Repository: Internet Site: eBay,
    Citation Detail: Record for EDDIE DOWLING and RAY DOOLEY,
    Citation Text: This is a rare December 5th, 1927 program (playbill) from the Original Broadway production of the EDDIE DOWLING and JIMMY HANLEY musical comedy "SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK" at New York's Knickerbocker Theatre. (The production opened October 3rd, 1927 and ran for 112 performances.) ..... The musical starred RAY DOOLEY and featured RUBY KEELER, JOE SMITH and CHARLES DALE, FISKE O'HARA, DICK KEENE, ELIZABETH MURRAY, SAM MORTON, CARL FRANCIS, FRANK KINGDON, HARRY SHORT, CECIL OWEN, JOSEPHINE SABEL, JIM THORNTON, BARNEY FAGAN, LINDA, WINIFRED HARRIS, HENRY DOWLING, WALTER CARSON, DENNIS AHERN, WILL AHERN, VIRGINIA CLARK, WOODEY LEE WILSON, GLADYS AHERN, WILLIAM AHEARN, EMILE COTE and EDWARD MAURELLI ..... CREDITS: Book, Music and Lyrics by EDDIE DOWLING and JIMMY HANLEY; Sets designed by SHELDON K. VIELE; Costumes designed by MAYBELLE MANNING and ROBERT STEVENSON; Choreographed by EARL LINDSAY; Directed by EDGAR MacGREGOR; Produced by CHARLES DILLINGHAM ..... DETAILS: The 44 page playbill measures 5 1/4" X 7 3/4" inches and includes beautiful cover graphics, full production credits, cast list, synopsis of scenes, list of musical numbers, bios of each of the leading actors and wonderful vintage advertising, but no cast photos ..... CONDITION: This playbill is in excellent condition and will make a wonderful addition to the collection of any musical theatre aficionado or historian.
    
    
    

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Rachel Rice Dool¹

F, #9779, b. 30 October 1888, d. 28 January 1984

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Father*	Robert Dool (b. 1858, d. 1922)
Mother*	Mary Docherty (b. 1862, d. DECEASED)

Partner: Elmer Erwin Graham (b. 1888, d. DECEASED)

Children:

Son*	John Dougherty Graham (b. 5 March 1914, d. 22 June 1955)

Vital Facts

Birth	Rachel Rice Dool was born on 30 October 1888 in Calton, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Note: 55 Marlborough Street.2,3,4,1
Marriage	She and Elmer Erwin Graham were married on 28 July 1912 in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, USAG.5
Marriage	She and Joseph Nelson Goucher were married on 31 March 1919 in Albany, New York, USAG, Marriage: 2875.6,7
Death	She died on 28 January 1984, in East Hampton, Suffolk, New York, USAG. Note: Age: 95.2,3
Burial	She was buried after 28 January 1984 in Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island, USAG, St Joseph's Cemetery, Mendon Road; Memorial ID: 103402136.3

Census Summary

1910

Census
16 Apr 1910⁴

Census
29 Apr 1910⁸

1920

Census
6 Jan 1920⁹

1930

Census
12 Apr 1930¹⁰

1940

Census
5 Apr 1940¹¹

Events - Chronological (including alternatives)

• Name Ray Dooley

  Citations: 9,4,5
• Name Rachel R Dool

  Citation: 8
• Name Rachel Rice

  Citation: 3
• Name Rachel Rae Dooley

  Citation: 3
• Name Rachel Dowling

  Citations: 2,12,11
• Name Rachael Graham Goucher

  Citation: 13
• Name Rachel Rice Dooley

  Citation: 14
• Name Rachel R Goucher

  Citation: 10
• Aka Rachel Ray Dooley
• Occupation

  Between 6 June and 3 August 1918 | New York, USAG

  Actor in "Hitchy-Koo."
• Occupation

  Between 16 June and 6 December 1919 | New York, USAG

  Actor in "Ziegfield Follies" as babies and brats.

  Citation: 15
• Occupation

  Between 21 June and 1 October 1921 | New York, USAG

  Actor in "Ziegfield Follies" as Principal.
• Occupation

  Between 22 June and 16 October 1920 | New York, USAG

  Actor in "Ziegfield Follies."
• Occupation

  Between 24 June and 25 September 1926 | New York, USAG

  Actor in "No Foolin'."
• Occupation

  Between 6 July and 19 September 1925 | New York, USAG

  Actor in "Ziegfield Follies."
• Occupation

  Between 25 September and 3 November 1923 | New York, USAG

  Actor in "Nifties."

  Citation: 15
• Occupation

  Between 011 and 15 May 1948 | USA

  Actor in "Hope's the Thing" as Josey, and "Life of a Buffalo."
• 1888
  Birth

  30 October 1888 | Calton, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland

  Rachel Rice Dool was born on 30 October 1888 in Calton, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Note: 55 Marlborough Street.

  Citations: 2,3,4,1
• 1890
  Birth

  1890 | Scotland

  Citation: 8
• 1891
  Birth

  1891

  Citation: 5
• 1893
  Birth

  1893 | Scotland

  Citation: 14
• 1894
  Birth

  1894 | Scotland

  Citation: 9
• 1894
  Birth

  31 October 1894 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAG

  Citation: 12
• 1895
  Birth

  30 October 1895 | Camden City, Camden, New Jersey, USA

  Citation: 13
• 1896
  Birth

  1896 | Scotland

  Citation: 10
• 1897~9
  Immigration

  1897 | Scotland

  She immigrated to Scotland in 1897 To USA.

  Citation: 10
• 1898
  Birth

  1898 | Scotland

  She was born in 1898 in Scotland. Note: (I suspect this statement of age is an actor's artistic licence.)

  Citation: 11
• 1900~12
  Arrival

  1900 | USA

  Citation: 9
• 1902~14
  Immigration

  1902 | USA

  Citation: 4
• 191021
  Occupation

  16 April 1910 | Norfolk City, Norfolk, Virginia, USA

  Actor in Vaudeville House.

  Citation: 4
• 191021
  Census

  16 April 1910 | Norfolk City, Norfolk, Virginia, USA

  Enumerated on the census as Age: 21; Marital Status: Unmarried; Relation to Head: Sister.

  Citation: 4
• 191021
  Residence

  16 April 1910 | Norfolk City, Norfolk, Virginia, USA

  Detail: 331 Main Street, Ward 2.

  Citation: 4
• 191021
  Census

  29 April 1910 | Camden City, Camden, New Jersey, USA

  Enumerated on the census as Age: 20; Marital Status: Unmarried; Relation to Head: Daughter.

  Citation: 8
• 191021
  Residence

  29 April 1910 | Camden City, Camden, New Jersey, USA

  Detail: 320 Front Street.

  Citation: 8
• 191021
  Occupation

  29 April 1910 | Camden City, Camden, New Jersey, USA

  Actor in Variety.

  Citation: 8
• 191223
  Marriage | Elmer Erwin Graham

  28 July 1912 | Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, USAG

  Elmer Erwin Graham

  Age ~24

  Birth 1888 | Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAG

  Death: DECEASED

  Citation: 5
• 191223
  Residence

  28 July 1912 | Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, USAG

  Citation: 5
• 1913~25
  Marriage | Joseph Nelson Goucher

  1913

  

  Joseph Nelson Goucher

  Age ~24

  Birth 11 December 1889 | Woonsocket, Providence, Rhode Island, USAG

  Death: 18 February 1976 | Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, USAG

  Citation: 10
• 191425
  Residence

  5 March 1914 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAG

  Detail: at birth of son. John.

  Citation: 14
• 191526
  Marriage | Joseph Nelson Goucher

  30 March 1915

  

  Joseph Nelson Goucher

  Age 25

  Birth 11 December 1889 | Woonsocket, Providence, Rhode Island, USAG

  Death: 18 February 1976 | Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, USAG

  Citation: 13
• 1917~29
  Occupation

  1917

  Acted in "A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair."
• 191728
  Marriage Fact | Joseph Nelson Goucher

  5 June 1917 | Providence, Rhode Island, USAG

  Citation: 16
• Occupation

  Between 24 December 1917 and 12 January 1918 | New York, USAG

  Actor in "Words and Music" as Gazzolean and Whirlwind.
• 191930
  Marriage | Joseph Nelson Goucher

  31 March 1919 | Albany, New York, USAG

  

  Joseph Nelson Goucher

  Age 29

  Birth 11 December 1889 | Woonsocket, Providence, Rhode Island, USAG

  Death: 18 February 1976 | Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, USAG

  She and Joseph Nelson Goucher were married on 31 March 1919 in Albany, New York, USAG, Marriage: 2875.

  Citations: 6,7
• 192031
  Occupation

  6 January 1920 | Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAG

  Vaudeville Actor.

  Citation: 9
• 192031
  Residence

  6 January 1920 | Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAG

  Detail: 6022 Locust Street.

  Citation: 9
• 192031
  Census

  6 January 1920 | Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAG

  Enumerated on the census as Age: 26; Marital Status: Unmarried; Relation to Head: Daughter.

  Citation: 9
• Occupation

  Between 28 November 1922 and 20 January 1923 | New York, USAG

  Actor in "The Bunch and Judy" as Evie Dallas and Lizetta.
• 1924
  Marriage | Joseph Nelson Goucher

  Before 9 June 1924

  

  Joseph Nelson Goucher

  Birth 11 December 1889 | Woonsocket, Providence, Rhode Island, USAG

  Death: 18 February 1976 | Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, USAG

  Citation: 13
• Occupation

  Between 3 October 1927 and 7 January 1928 | New York City, New York, New York, USA

  Acted alongside Bob Hope (Lester Hope) in hit Broadway musical "The Sidewalks of New York" (written by Eddie Dowling.)

  Citation: 15
• Occupation

  Between 3 October 1927 and 7 January 1938 | New York City, New York, New York, USA

  Actor in Eddie Dowling's "Sidewalks of New York."

  Citation: 17
• Occupation

  Between 6 August 1928 and 2 February 1929 | New York, USAG

  Actor in "Earl Carroll's Vanities."
• 193041
  Census

  12 April 1930 | Queens, New York, USAG

  Enumerated on the census as Bayside Town, 224th Street as wife of head.

  Citation: 10
• 193041
  Occupation

  12 April 1930 | Queens, New York, USAG

  Actor (Legitimate.)

  Citation: 10
• 193041
  Residence

  12 April 1930 | Queens, Queens, New York, USAG

  Detail: Bayside Town 224th Street.

  Citation: 10
• 1931~43
  Occupation

  1931 | New York, USAG

  Acted in "Honeymoon Lane."
• Occupation

  Between 27 December 1934 and 11 May 1935 | New York, USAG

  Actor in "Thumbs Up."
• 1934
  Occupation

  After 1934

  Retired from show business.
• Residence

  Between 1 April 1935 and 5 April 1940 | New York City, Queens, New York, USA

  Detail: 3545, 223 Street, near Edgeware View.

  Citation: 11
• 193748
  Departure

  14 August 1937 | Cork City, Cork, Ireland

  Citation: 12
• 193748
  Arrival

  19 August 1937 | New York, New York, USAG

  Citation: 12
• 1937
  Residence

  After 19 August 1937 | New York City, New York, New York, USA

  Detail: St. James' Theatre, 44th Street.

  Citation: 12
• 194051
  Census

  5 April 1940 | New York City, Queens, New York, USA

  Enumerated on the census as Age: 42; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Wife.

  Citation: 11
• 194051
  Occupation

  5 April 1940 | New York City, Queens, New York, USA

  No Occupation.

  Citation: 11

Events - Death & Burial

• 198495
  Death

  28 January 1984 | East Hampton, Suffolk, New York, USAG

  Rachel Rice Dool died on 28 January 1984, in East Hampton, Suffolk, New York, USAG. Note: Age: 95.

  Citations: 2,3
• 1984
  Burial

  After 28 January 1984 | Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island, USAG

  She was buried after 28 January 1984 in Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island, USAG, St Joseph's Cemetery, Mendon Road; Memorial ID: 103402136.

  Citation: 3

Facts - Non-Chronological

• Reference Number

  In the Dowling One-Name Study Rachel Rice Dool has the reference number 9779.
• SSN

  Issued with Social Security Number: 107-18-1873.

  Citation: 2

Wikipedia - 14 October 2019 - Rachel Rice Dooley WITH AMENDMENTS
Rachel Rice "Ray" Dooley (October 30,1888 to 28 January 1984) was a vaudeville performer.(1) Dooley was her stage name.

Biography
Dooley is believed to have been born Rachel Rice Dool, to Robert Dool and Mary Docherty on October 30, 1888 in Glasgow, Scotland. Robert Dool (stage name Robert Rogers Dooley), was an Irish-born circus clown.(1)(2) Her brothers, Gordon, Johnny, and Willie Dooley, were also performers. She made her performing debut in a minstrel show in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She played "babies and brats" in the Ziegfeld Follies after World War I with W. C. Fields, Will Rogers, and Fannie Brice, among others. From there she moved to musical stage performances.(1)

Marriage
After a marriage to Elmer Graham in 1912 from which she had one son, John "Jack" Graham (3) , she later married with Eddie Dowling in 1919; the couple had one more child, a daughter, Mary Maxine (later Mrs. Clark). From 1919-34, Dooley teamed with Dowling for Ziegfeld Follies and in Thumbs Up in 1934, after which she retired. She came out of retirement in 1948 to appear in Hope's the Thing and Home Life of a Buffalo.(1)

Death
Ray Dooley died on January 28, 1984 at her home in East Hampton, New York.(1)

References
1. a b c d e "Ray Dooley, Comedienne who Began Career In Family's Act, is Dead". New York Times. January 29, 1984. Retrieved January 6, 2015.
2. The 1920 US census gives her approximate year of birth as 1894, but the Social Security Death Index cites "Rachel Dowling; born 30 October 1888; died January 1984 at 11937 East Hampton, Suffolk, New York, USA". VIAF and IBDB and IMDb use "October 30, 1896". Findagrave uses: "30 October 1888". Her birth and baptism records should be available from Scotland but the Social Security Death Index will be considered the most accurate until then.
3. "Candid Close-Ups". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. December 25, 1938. Retrieved August 27, 2016. (BRIAN THOMAS DOWLING (1955-) RESEARCH NOTE: THIS IS NOT CONFIRMED BY RECORDS WHICH SHOW JACK (John Graham) AS SON OF RAY'S PREVIOUS MARRIAGE, SEE FACTS.) Appears twice in 1910 census.⁸

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Shared by Carolyn (Lee) Kelly on 12 Jan 2013. This is in front of the Memorial which faces Mendon Road, Rt 122... Rear side contains several siblings of Eddie Dowling (originally Joseph Goucher) and his parents. Note the two different spellings of the Goucher/Gaucher surname on rear side of the memorial - CLK,

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Shared by Carolyn (Lee) Kelly on 12 Jan 2013. This is the rear side of the Dowling Memorial - the front is facing Mendon Road, Rt 122, in the background of this photo. Note his parents and two brothers, Charles E & William F & sister, Marion... CLK

Photo-Dooley-Ray-Dooley-1888-1925-1984-Follies-WC-Fields

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W.C. Fields and Ray Dooley in the "Back Porch" scene from Ziegfield's Comic Supplement, January 1925.

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Joseph Nelson Goucher, also known as Eddie Dowling. Wife and Actor Ray Dooley shown on cover of Review programme

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Joseph Nelson Goucher, also known as Eddie Dowling adb wife Rachel Ray Dooley at Lagardia airport, New York in 1945

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Joseph Nelson Goucher, also known as Eddie Dowling and his wife Rachel Ray Dooley

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Ray Dooley and Charley. Who "Charley" is not known.

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(APPARENTLY) With cousins "Razie" & Billy Vaughan, and John Graham Dowling1920 1. -; 2. Rae Dooley; 3. -; 4. John Graham (Dowling); 5; -.

Relationship to the site collator Brian Thomas Dowling:

No direct relationship yet found to Brian Thomas Dowling

This person appears in the following lists:- Acting Cause of Death Census 1910 USA Census 1920 USA Census 1930 USA Census 1940 USA Death Age Ireland - ALL Ireland, Cork - ALL Scotland - ALL USA, Delaware USA, New Jersey USA, New York USA, Pennsylvania USA, Rhode Island USA, Virginia ALL

1. [S2675] SOURCE: (Full),
   Source Combined Fields: Scotland. Glasgow, Lanarkshire. Calton. "Scotland Statutory Registers BIRTHS".,
   Repository: Scotland's People,
   Citation Detail: Record for RACHEL RICE DOOL,
   Citation Text: 4:30am 30 October 1888; 55 Marlborough Street, Glasgow; Father: Robert Dool, ship steward; Mother: Mary Dool, m.s. Docherty; Married: 1 October 1888, Glasgow Dennistoun District; Informant: Mother on 19 November 1888 at Glasgow to James Moore assistant registrar
   
   
   

   Birth-Dool-Rachel-Rice-1888-10-30-SCO-Glasgow-Calton
2. [S973] SOURCE: (Full): Ancestry.com,
   Source Combined Fields: -PROJECT- United States of America. Social Security Administration (SSA). Social Security Death Index.
   
   Record set: Social Security Death Index; Category: Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records; Subcategory: Civil Deaths & Burials; Collections from: Americas, United States,
   Repository: Internet Service: Ancestry.com,
   Citation Detail: Database online.,
   Citation Text: Record for Rachel Dowling
   
3. [S1447] SOURCE: (Full),
   Source Combined Fields: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103402136/rachel-dowling,
   Citation Detail: Record for RACHEL "RAY/RAE" DOOLEY Dowling,
   Citation Text: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 14 October 2019), memorial page for Rachel “Ray/Rae” Dooley Dowling (30 Oct 1888–28 Jan 1984), Find A Grave Memorial no. 103402136, citing Saint Josephs Cemetery, Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave (contributor 8)
   
4. [S2649] SOURCE: (Full),
   Source Combined Fields: https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=USC%2F1910%2F005157523%2F00684&parentid=USC%2F1910%2F005157523%2F00684%2F029,
   Citation Detail: Record for JOHN D DOOLEY household of Norfolk Ward 2, Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America,
   Citation Text: First name(s); Last name; Relationship; Marital Status; Gender; Age; Birth year;
   John D; Dooley; Self; Married; Male; 23; 1887;
   Ray; Dooley; Sister; Single; Female; 21; 1889;
   May; Dooley; Sister; Single; Female; 18; 1892;
   Gordon; Dooley; Brother; Single; Male; 16; 1894;
   Viola; Dingas; -; Single; Female; 17; 1893;
   Elsie; Dingas; -; Single; Female; 16; 1894;
   Anna; O'Connor; -; Single; Female; 17; 1893;
   Thos; Wood; -; Single; Male; 17; 1893,
   
   
   

   Census-1910-USA-Dooley-John-D-1887-VA-Norfolk
5. [S2650] SOURCE: (Full),
   Source Combined Fields: https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=https%3A%2F%2Ffamilysearch.org%2Fpal%3A%2FMM9.3.1%2FTH-1951-25487-12565-26&parentid=US%2FFS%2FM%2F067496954%2F2,
   Repository: Internet Service: Find My Past,
   Citation Detail: Record for ELMER I GRAHAM to RAY DOOLEY,
   Citation Text: First name(s): Ray; Last name: Dooley; Sex: Female; Age: 21; Birth year: 1891; Father's first name(s): Robert; Father's last name: Dooley; Mother's first name(s): Mary; Mother's last name: Dougherty; Event: Marriage; Year: 1912; Event date: 28 Jul 1912; Location: Wilmington; Place: Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States; County: New Castle; State: Delaware; Country: United States; Spouse's first name(s): Elmer I; Spouse's last name: Graham; Spouse's sex: Male; Spouse's age: 24; Spouse's birth year: 1888; Spouse's father's first name(s): James; Spouse's father's last name: Graham; Spouse's mother's first name(s): Lizzie; Spouse's mother's last name: Stewart,
   
   
   

   Marriage-Graham-Elmer-I-Dooley-Ray-1912-07-28-USA-DE-Wilmingtron
6. [S2651] SOURCE: (Full),
   Source Combined Fields: Goacher. Privately held by Roger Goacher.
   
   Roger Goacher; Guild of One Name Studies Member 2839; Contact: 5 Oct 2019; 8 Oct 2019,
   Citation Detail: E-mails regarding EDDIE DOWLING,
   Citation Text: Dear Brian
   Thank you for your reply.
   I have recently been researching Rhode Island Gouchers, having come across a recent obituary for someone who I couldn’t trace in any of my existing trees. Joseph Nelson Goucher, aka Eddie Dowling, came up in these researches.
   There is a wealth of material online about Eddie’s life and work, but some of the information is contradictory. The Wikipedia has a number of inaccuracies and questionable facts.
   “….he was the 14th of 17 children..” He was actually the third of five known children of his parents. His mother may have had other pregnancies, that didn’t result in live births; but not, I think, 17 pregnancies, and certainly not another 12 before Eddie’s birth. Don’t know where these figures came from.
   “Some sources give his middle name as "Narcisse".” His grandfather’s name was ‘Narcisse’. All the material I have gathered says he middle name was ‘Nelson’.
   “Dowling was married to ….. Rachel Rice Dooley.” There is some doubt as to her name. The online New York marriage index shows ‘Joseph N Goucher’ marrying ‘Ray D Graham’ and/or ‘Ray Dooley’. The census records show her first name as ‘Rachel’ so that seems correct, but her son has the second name ‘Graham’. Presumably the confusion over Rachel’s surname could be resolved by obtaining a copy of the marriage certificate.
   John Graham Goucher was born three years before Eddie and Rachel married. I wonder if Rachel (or Rae has she appears to have been known) was previously married. Perhaps her maiden name was ‘Dooley’, and she was married to someone called ‘Graham’, or vice versa. Was John Eddie’s son or a product of a previous marriage? Presumably this could only be resolved by finding his birth certificate.
   Eddie and Rachel’s daughter Maxine was born about 21 years after their son John, when Rachel was 42 – menopausal baby?
   “Jack Dowling died serving in the World War II.” No! He did serve in WW2, and was a reporter, held by the Russian for a while, after the war, as the US Congressional Record shows. But he was a member of Time-Life organization staff when he was killed in a plane crash in 1955 in Paraguay.
   Although John Graham Goucher, aka Jack Dowling, had a son, I haven’t followed this up, as they are no longer part of my ONS.
   Eddie was so well known, that when his mother Bridget Dowling Goucher died in 1933, floral tributes were received from Governor Lehman of New York and President and Mrs Roosevelt.
   I am attaching my Family Sheets for Eddie and his parents so you can see the information I have and my sources. If you can’t ready the files, or want copies of any of the material I have collected, please let me know.
   Best wishes
   Roger Goacher
   Researching Goacher and variants any time any where
   
7. [S2660] SOURCE: (Full),
   Source Combined Fields: https://archive.org/details/New_York_State_Marriage_Index_1919/page/n568,
   Repository: Internet Service: Reclaim the Records - www-archive.org,
   Citation Detail: Record for JOSEPH N GOUCHER to RAY GRAHAM,
   Citation Text: 31 Mar 1919 - Albany
   
   
   

   Marriage-Goucher-Joseph-N-Graham-Ray-1919-03-31-USA-NY-Albany-0568
   

   Marriage-Goucher-Joseph-N-Graham-Ray-1919-03-31-USA-NY-Albany-0572
8. [S2678] SOURCE: (Full),
   Source Combined Fields: https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=USC%2F1910%2F004972842%2F00695&parentid=USC%2F1910%2F004972842%2F00695%2F023,
   Citation Detail: Record for ROBERT R DOOL household of Camden Ward 1, Camden, New Jersey, United States of America,
   Citation Text: First name(s); Last name; Relationship; Marital Status; Gender; Age; Birth year;
   Robert R; Dool; Self; Married; Male; 46; 1864;
   Mary M; Dool; Wife; Married; Female; 45; 1865;
   John D; Dool; Son; Married; Male; 22; 1888;
   Rachel R; Dool; Daughter; Single; Female; 20; 1890;
   Mary V; Dool; Daughter; Single; Female; 17; 1893;
   James Gordon; Dool; Son; Single; Male; 15; 1895;
   Florence; Dool; Daughter-in-law; Married; Female; 22; 1888,
   
   
   

   Census-1910-USA-Dool-Robert-1864-NJ-Camden
9. [S2648] SOURCE: (Full),
   Source Combined Fields: https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=USC%2F1920%2F004968694%2F00659&parentid=USC%2F1920%2F004968694%2F00659%2F055,
   Citation Detail: Record for ROBT R DOOLEY household of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America,
   Citation Text: First name(s); Last name; Relationship; Marital Status; Gender; Age; Birth year; Birth place;
   Robt R; Dooley; Self; Married; Male; 59; 1861; Ireland;
   Mary; Dooley; Wife; Married; Female; 58; 1862; Scotland;
   William; Dooley; Son; Single; Male; 32; 1888; Scotland;
   Gordon; Dooley; Son; Single; Male; 21; 1899; Pennsylvania;
   Ray; Dooley; Daughter; Single; Female; 26; 1894; Scotland;
   George; Vaughan; Son-in-law; Married; Male; 32; 1888; Virginia;
   May; Vaughan; Granddaughter; Married; Female; 24; 1896; New York;
   Ray; Vaughan; Granddaughter; Single; Female; 6; 1914; Pennsylvania;
   William; Vaughan; Grandson; Single; Male; 2; 1918; Pennsylvania,
   
   
   

   Census-1920-USA-Dooley-Robt-R-1861-USA-PA-Philadelphia
10. [S992] SOURCE: (Full): Ancestry.com,
    Source Combined Fields: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. ;Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930</i>. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls.,
    Repository: Internet Service: Ancestry.com,
    Citation Detail: Database online. Queens, Queens, New York, ED 910, roll 1594, page , image 199.0.,
    Citation Text: Record for Joseph N Goucher
    
    
    

    Census-1930-USA-Goucher-Joseph-N-0001.jpg

    Database online. Queens, Queens, New York, ED 910, roll 1594, page , image 199.0.
11. [S3881] SOURCE: (Full),
    Source Combined Fields: https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=USC%2F1940%2F005458707%2F00584&parentid=USC%2F1940%2F1553358403,
    Citation Detail: Record for EDDIE DOWLING household of New York City, Queens, New York, United States of America (across two pages),
    Citation Text: First name(s); Last name; Relationship; Marital Status; Gender; Age; Birth year; Birth place;
    Eddie; Dowling; Head; Married; Male; 44; 1896; Rhode Island;
    Rachel; Dowling; Wife; Married; Female; 42; 1898; Scotland;
    John G; Dowling; Son; Single; Male; 23; 1917; Pennsylvania;
    Maxine; Dowling; Daughter; Single; Female; 3; 1937; New York;
    Lottie; Sabat; Maid servant; Married; Female; 27; 1913; New York;
    Martha; Wurr; Maid servant; Single; Female; 25; 1915; Germany;
    Wing; Ruth; Head; Married; Female; 59;-; Ohio;
    -; Ye;; Son; Single; Male; 38; -; Sna Francisco;
    Goucher; Walter; Nephew; Single; Male; 27; 1912; Rhode Island
    NARA series: T627; NARA roll: 2735,
    
    
    

    Census-1940-USA-Dowling-Eddie-1896-NY-Queens-A
    

    Census-1940-USA-Dowling-Eddie-1896-NY-Queens-B
12. [S972] SOURCE: (Full): Ancestry.com,
    Source Combined Fields:

    ;<i>Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1897. Microfilm Publication M237, 675 rolls. NAI: <a href="http://research.archives.gov/description/6256867"; target="_blank">6256867</a>. Records of the U.S. Customs Service, Record Group 36. National Archives at Washington, D.C.

    ;

    ;<i>Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957. Microfilm Publication T715, 8892 rolls. NAI: <a href="http://research.archives.gov/description/300346"; target="_blank">300346</a>. Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service; National Archives at Washington, D.C.

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    ;<i>Supplemental Manifests of Alien Passengers and Crew Members Who Arrived on Vessels at New York, New York, Who Were Inspected for Admission, and Related Index, compiled 1887-1952. Microfilm Publication A3461, 21 rolls. NAI: <a href="http://research.archives.gov/description/3887372"; target="_blank">3887372.</a> RG 85, Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service; National Archives, Washington, D.C.

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    ;<i>Index to Alien Crewmen Who Were Discharged or Who Deserted at New York, New York, May 1917-Nov. 1957. Microfilm Publication A3417. NAI: <a href="http://research.archives.gov/description/4497925"; target="_blank">4497925.</a> National Archives at Washington, D.C.

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    ;<i>Passenger Lists, 1962-1972, and Crew Lists, 1943-1972, of Vessels Arriving at Oswego, New York. Microfilm Publication A3426. NAI: <a href="http://research.archives.gov/description/4441521"; target="_blank">4441521.</a> National Archives at Washington, D.C.

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    Citation Detail: Database online.,
    Citation Text: Record for Nelson Goucher
    
    
    

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    Source Combined Fields: http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=USpassports&h=1155022&indiv=try,
    Repository: Internet Service: Ancestry.com,
    Citation Detail: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington D.C.; Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925; Collection Number: ARC Identifier 583830 / MLR Number A1 534; NARA Series: M1490; Roll #: 2568,
    Citation Text: Record for Nelson Goucher
    
    
    

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14. [S2654] SOURCE: (Full),
    Source Combined Fields: https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3AJohn~%20%2Bsurname%3AGraham~%20%2Bbirth_year%3A1912-1917~%20%2Brecord_country%3A%22United%20States%22,
    Repository: Internet Service: Family Search,
    Citation Detail: Record for JOHN DOUGHERTY GRAHAM,
    Citation Text: Event Type: Birth ; Event Date: 5 Mar 1914 ; Event Place: Pennsylvania, United States ; Event Place (Original): Pennsylvania, United States ; Gender: Male ; Father's Name: Elmer Erwin Graham ; Father's Birthplace: Philadelphia ; Father's Age: 27 ; Mother's Name: Rachael Rice Dooley ; Mother's Birthplace: Scotland ; Mother's Age: 21 ; Document Number: 6686.
    
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    Source Combined Fields: http://www.dvrbs.com/people/CamdenShowbiz-Tydeman&Dooley.htm,
    Citation Detail: Record for Webpage 20 Oct 2019 titled: The Dooleys ******** Tydeman & Dooley,
    Citation Text: TYDEMAN & DOOLEY were a pair of comedic acrobats who starred on the B.F. Keith vaudeville circuit in the 1900s and 1910s. Vincent A. Tydeman grew up in Camden, New Jersey, USA, and also had a long career as a minor league baseball player. After retiring from baseball and the stage he remained a Camden resident until his passing in 1975. The Tydeman family lived in North and East Camden though at least the late 1970s, and were on Howell Street for many years.
    
    The Dooleys were a family act, and at least one of the Dooley brothers lived in Camden for many years. The family name was originally Dool. As of this writing, I'm not sure which of the three Dooley brothers was Vincent Tydeman's partner, but I suspect it was either Johnny Dooley or Billy Dooley, Billy was the oldest, and is the more likely of the two. The third brother, Gordon Dooley, would have been too young. It may well have been that Tydeman's partner was the Dooley father, Robert Rogers Dool, which would explain the clown makeup in the photographs attached to the father Robvert Dool - Dooley.
    
    Journalist Dan McConnell, who had grown up in the same neighborhood and had worked as a publicist for the Keith circuit in the 1910s wrote about the Dooleys in the late 1930s, as did Gordon Mackay, while working for the Courier. North Camden barber Pat Iarossi, who had a shop for many years at North Third Street told the following to Mackay in early 1938:
    
    "I used to cut Ann Pennington’s hair when she was a child," Pat recalled. "And the Dooleys always made my shop their headquarters. Billy Dooley worked for me. The kids, six ( FIVE to be correct- PMC ) of them, trained in a patch we called the 'cow lot’. Rae and Mae were the two girls, while Johnny was the big shot of the boys.”
    “They used to turn cartwheels right out in the lot there and come into my shop to do a little vocal rehearsing. Ann Pennington was always dancing, you couldn't keep her feet still. I remember one day Ann, Johnny Dooley and a girl named Moore went over to Lubin's in Philadelphia, trying to break into the movies.
    “Lubin wouldn’t handle them and they all came crying into my shop.”
    
    In March of 2007 an e-mail came to this website from John Vaughan, grandson of Mae Dooley and great-nephew of the Ray Dooley and the Dooley brothers. John wrote at length about the his family's show-business legacy.
    "The Dooley's came to America in the late 1800's from Glasgow, Scotland and settled in Philly. The boys were named Johnny, Billy, and Gordon. The girls were named Ray and Mae. Their father, (my great grandfather) was named Robert Rogers Dooley, he was a famous Irish circus clown, and he married Mary Dool (actually Mary Docherty), from Glasgow, who was nicked named Mumsie.
    The five kids all had an act, all did comedy, and the girl Mae, also sang. The went out on the road and toured a lot. Once, when they were all older, they played in Portsmouth, Virginia. Mae fell in love with a man she met there. They decided to get married, Mae dropped out of show business, the two of them moved back to Philly, and they had a baby boy in May of 1917. They named the child William Jonathan Dooley Vaughan. That child would grow up and become my father. That is my connection to the Dooley family.
    The boys continued as a group and were headliners in their day. Doing mainly slap stick comedy. They stared in many comedy plays plus The Ziegfield Follies, George White Scandals and The Earl Carroll Vanities. We are talking early 1900's till after WWI into the early 1920's.
    The girl, Ray (also spelled Rae sometimes), split off on her own and became a very big star, also on Broadway as an Actor and a comedienne. She performed in many musicals and also in the Follies and Vaudeville.
    
    Her greatest fame came when she did a "kid act" together with W.C. Fields in The Ziegfield Follies in 1920 & 1921. It was based on this act that W.C. Fields got his reputation as a "kid hater". The Actor, Fanny Brice, who also worked with Ray and W.C., later stole the act for herself and called it Baby Snooks. Among other stars of the day, Ray Dooley later went on and performed together with Bob Hope (then called by his real name, Lester Hope) in the smash hit Broadway musical "The Sidewalks Of New York" in 1928.
    
    Ray married a man named Eddie Dowling in 1931 (I think that was the year). He was famous in the business...a song and dance man, actor. director, producer, song writer (among other hits, he wrote "On The Side Walks Of New York"), and Pulitzer Prize Winner. He also introduced Tennessee Williams to Broadway in The Glass Menagerie.
    
    My father's mother, Mae Dooley Vaughan died in 1947 in Philly. My father, who died in 1993, never knew how old his parents were for some strange reason! Ray died in 1984 in East Hampton, New York, she was 88 (Newspapers say 93- PMC). The three boys all married show girls and all died young. Johnny died in 1928, he was 41, Billy (William) died in 1921, he was 39, and Gordon died in 1930, he was 31. Gordon Dooley was the only one of the five kids who was born in America, in the year 1899. The others were all born in Glasgow."
    
    Their father, Robert Rogers Dooley, also died young, of apoplexy just after son Gordon Dooley's marriage in 1922. That same year, Johnny Dooley was featured in the movie When Knighthood Was in Flower. Starring Marion Davies, it was the leading movie at the box-office of the 1922-1923 movie season. At at the time it was produced it was the most expensive movie ever made with cost an estimated at $1.8 million. The film was the pet project of the famous media magnate William Randolph Hearst.
    
    Interestingly enough, the Dooley family is still involved in show business. John Vaughan, who has been living in Berlin, Germany for many years, is a singer, songwriter, and composer. You can find out more about John at his website www.john-vaughan.com.
    If anyone has any further information about this act, PLEASE e-mail me! - Phil Cohen email address
    
    
    

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16. [S977] SOURCE: (Full): Ancestry.com,
    Source Combined Fields: United States, Selective Service System. ;World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918</i>. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M1509, 4,582 rolls. Imaged from Family History Library microfilm.,
    Repository: Internet Service: Ancestry.com,
    Citation Detail: Database online. Roll 1852217, DraftBoard 0.,
    Citation Text: Record for Joseph Nelson Goucher
    
    
    

    Joseph Nelson Goucher - World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918

    Database online. Roll 1852217, DraftBoard 0.
17. [S2695] SOURCE: (Full),
    Source Combined Fields: Knickerbocker Theatre, -, -. "Theatre Programme for "Sidewalks of New York"". Document Image. 1927. Dowling; Dooley.,
    Repository: Internet Site: eBay,
    Citation Detail: Record for EDDIE DOWLING and RAY DOOLEY,
    Citation Text: This is a rare December 5th, 1927 program (playbill) from the Original Broadway production of the EDDIE DOWLING and JIMMY HANLEY musical comedy "SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK" at New York's Knickerbocker Theatre. (The production opened October 3rd, 1927 and ran for 112 performances.) ..... The musical starred RAY DOOLEY and featured RUBY KEELER, JOE SMITH and CHARLES DALE, FISKE O'HARA, DICK KEENE, ELIZABETH MURRAY, SAM MORTON, CARL FRANCIS, FRANK KINGDON, HARRY SHORT, CECIL OWEN, JOSEPHINE SABEL, JIM THORNTON, BARNEY FAGAN, LINDA, WINIFRED HARRIS, HENRY DOWLING, WALTER CARSON, DENNIS AHERN, WILL AHERN, VIRGINIA CLARK, WOODEY LEE WILSON, GLADYS AHERN, WILLIAM AHEARN, EMILE COTE and EDWARD MAURELLI ..... CREDITS: Book, Music and Lyrics by EDDIE DOWLING and JIMMY HANLEY; Sets designed by SHELDON K. VIELE; Costumes designed by MAYBELLE MANNING and ROBERT STEVENSON; Choreographed by EARL LINDSAY; Directed by EDGAR MacGREGOR; Produced by CHARLES DILLINGHAM ..... DETAILS: The 44 page playbill measures 5 1/4" X 7 3/4" inches and includes beautiful cover graphics, full production credits, cast list, synopsis of scenes, list of musical numbers, bios of each of the leading actors and wonderful vintage advertising, but no cast photos ..... CONDITION: This playbill is in excellent condition and will make a wonderful addition to the collection of any musical theatre aficionado or historian.
    
    
    

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