Dudley McDonald Gooding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba_Gooding_Sr.

Born in Harlem, New York City, Gooding was a son of Dudley MacDonald Gooding (1890–1955) and his wife Addie Alston.[3] The elder Gooding was a native of Barbados who fled the island in 1936 to Cuba, and met and married a woman there. When she was murdered because of their affiliation with Pan Africanist leader Marcus Garvey, Dudley Gooding promised his wife on her deathbed that he would name his first son Cuba.[3] His father died when Cuba was 11 years old.[4] Gooding's father was a taxi driver in Manhattan.[5][3][6]

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From “The Cuba Gooding Sr. Story is coming to film”

Cuba Gooding Sr.’s father was Dudley McDonald Gooding. He fled from Barbados because he rejected subservience to his father and to the British crown which ruled Barbados at the turn of the century.
"He went to Panama and helped build the Panama Canal. He worked on ships all over the world, learned nine languages, and settled in Cuba. He lived there 17 years until his wife Carmen (not Cuba's mother) was brutally murdered. He left Cuba to go to Jamaica then back to Barbados. Later, Dudley immigrated to the United States and lived in Harlem, "the Black Mecca" in New York City. In memory of his wife, he insisted that he be known as "Cuba." not Dudley in memory of his late wife. There he met Addie Alston, originally from North Carolina. I hey married and Cuba was born. Later, his brother Antonio was born.“

References

• https://archive.is/20120918033317/http://www.soulandfunkmusic.com/c...
• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Apr 21 2017, 5:19:15 UTC
• Year: 1932; Arrival: New York, New York, USA; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Line: 1; Page Number: 157 AncestryImage
• Ancestry.com. U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. AncestryImage Name: Dudley Gooding Arrival Date: 20 May 1932 Birth Date: abt 1889 Age: 43 Gender: Male Port of Departure: Cherbourg,France Port of Arrival: New York, New York, USA Ship Name: President Roosevelt
• Ancestry.com. New York, State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1794-1943 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. AncestryImage
• Dudley Gooding in the New York, New York, Marriage License Indexes, 1907-2018 AncestryImage Name: Dudley Gooding Gender: Male Marriage License Date: 21 Apr 1944 Marriage License Place: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA Spouse: Addie Alston License Number: 10386
• Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. AncestryImage 1948 (no wife listed)
• Dudley Gooding in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 No Image Text-only collection Name: Dudley Gooding Gender: Male Race: Black Birth Date: 5 Dec 1889 Birth Place: Bridgetown B Father: William Gooding Mother: Edith Sinclair SSN: Notes: Oct 1937: Name listed as DUDLEY GOODING
• https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/59595695/person/29...