Immigration autobiographical timline

  • Birth date

    June, 7, 1847 in Ireland I was born in Ireland. My life was good growing up. My family was very wealthy and had some money. I did not have to start working till I was 16 so I started working on September, 23, 1863. I decided to work in America so I moved there when I was 37 July 19, 1884. I went there to earn money to support my wife and my 3 children a boy and 2 girls. We were very wealthy till my son did something wrong and when to jail so then we had to get him out. Then I had to move back
  • Moved back to america

    I moved back to America after we spent 3 years at the new house. My son went with me back to America and I showed him what life was like there. We both got jobs but my sons was a part time job. He went back and forth to see his mom and his sisters.
  • dramatic turn

    dramatic turn
    Then on April, 10, 1906 there was a dramatic turn. We were not allowed to leave America to go back to Ireland to see are family so they had to move here. We all lived in the house that I was living in at the time but then we had to move to a bigger house because my wife had another child and it was a boy.
  • family all moved to america

    family all moved to america
    After we moved to a new house I was offered a promotion. I was one of the head people at my job and got more pay. I was very happy and so was my family. Even though my job kept me away from my family more I still got to provide more for them.