History of the Riano Brothers / Dobbins

[Erato]

Reply #22 has various names for Jane:

U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index - Jane Helen Riano - Jane Ria Montgomery - Jane Montgomery -  Jane Forsman  - Jane Neil - 8 July 1918 - passed away 9 November 2003 -

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Is any of this true?  I thought Robert died in New York.

"[Irene] Riano was a member of the Four Rianos, long-time vaudeville headliner. Her father, Joseph Rice, was a theatre owner in Philadelphia and her husband Robert Riano was a stage performer who died on stage in San Francisco. Riano played on the stage with Maurice Barrymore and Edwin Booth and created quite an uproar when she performed the splits on stage - the first for an American girl."

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/181404166/irene-riano

[oldohiohome]

Reply #22 has various names for Jane:

U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index - Jane Helen Riano - Jane Ria Montgomery - Jane Montgomery -  Jane Forsman  - Jane Neil - 8 July 1918 - passed away 9 November 2003 -


https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/181404166/irene-riano

Thank you, I didn't know we had accounted for her.

[BingoBuster]

I'll give it another go with 1918. was the month and day the same?

Same month and day

[oldohiohome]

From the NY Dramatic Mirror, April 23, 1904, page 18, a picture of all four Rianos. Attached.

This link looks too long to work, but here it is

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[Erato]

I shrank it.  Let's see if it works.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01n9m/

[BingoBuster]

I shrank it.  Let's see if it works.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01n9l/

That works, thank you! Excellent find! Just wish we could tell which one was which!

[Erato]

Another photo of Irene

http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/collections/vaudeville/items/irene-riano-at-keith-and-proctors-125th-st/

[BingoBuster]

Out of curiosity, is there anything pertaining to the other Dobbins sibling?

From an earlier post:

Here's the family in 1870
1870 Census, Bethel, Sullivan County, NY

James 36, a gardener, male citizen of US, no Real Estate, has $100 personal estate, born in Ireland
Mary 32, born in Ireland
John 11, born in New York
Margaret 8, born in New York
Michael 3, born in New York (this is the direct line supposedly. curious about that)

I know some people found info on Frank and how he lost an eye and worked on a railroad. Not sure if as interesting since Robert and William ran away and formed the Rianos.

[oldohiohome]

I think I found the Australian who was one of the Four Rianos:

The Billboard, November 13, 1915, page 17

"Jack and Louise Kell have just closed their season of fairs ... Jack Kell is a member of the original Four Rianos, and still puts on his monkey impersonation." [no location given]

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01n9n/

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Indiana Marriages
St Joseph Indiana, 22 January 1909

John W Kell, born 29 March 1878, in England, son of William F Kell and Sarah Watson. occupation: actor, residence: South Bend, Indiana. parents' residence: Sidney, Australia

Louise Augusta Whilmine Buetow, born August 26, 1882, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, residence: South Bend, Indiana. occupation: manicuring. father: Albert Buetow, born in Berlin, Germany, living in Milwaukee. mother: Marie Kollar, born in Berlin, living in Milwaukee.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZC5-8LJ

They are also in Cook County (Illinois) Marriages, with a marriage date of 14 November 1912.
no image at familysearch.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7CP-W52

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SS Ventura, May 13, 1902, arriving San Francisco, from Sidney, Australia

William H Riano, 27, professional, born in US, last residence: US

five lines down:

John W Kell, 23, professional born in England, last residence: England, headed to San Francisco

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKMQ-SP49

edited to add attachment