Annie Moore (immigrant)

Annie Moore ( born April 24, 1874 in Cork, † December 6, 1924 in Manhattan, New York) was an Irish woman who immigrated as the first immigrant through the central collection point on Ellis Iceland to the United States on January 1, 1892.

Life

Annie Moore traveled on December 20 in 1891 along with her ​​younger brothers, Philip and Anthony from the Irish port of Cobh (then Queenstown ) in order to follow their parents to the United States. On board the S. S. Nevada they reached on December 31, New York, to go the next morning by the procedure of the Immigration Department. The Nevada was compared with the two previously arrived ship City of Paris and Victoria preferred because the American name better fit for the opening ceremony. About why she went as the first on-board, there are various reports: The New York Times claimed that it would have been her 15th birthday and it would therefore have been set forward, an Italian immigrant told, he would have admitted because of their excitement or a German would have been pushed back because a young, English-speaking woman would have been more appropriate than to honoring passenger.

As the first immigrant who was welcomed into the new facility, received the Moore surprised the blessing of a chaplain and the director of the station gave her a gold Eagle coin worth ten dollars at the head of the Statue of Liberty as a coin design. A mission worker gave her a silver coin, another innocent bystander, a gold coin worth five dollars.

It was long believed that a woman of the same name, which in a traffic accident in Texas was killed in 1923, the same as Moore was. Subsequent research revealed, however, that this was born in Illinois. In fact, Annie Moore has probably never left the city of New York. She married a German immigrant named Joseph Augustus Schayer, with whom she had eleven children, of whom at least seven died early. Moore died in 1924 at the age from a heart condition and is at the Calvary Cemetery in Queens buried. The grave could be attributed to her in 2006.

1993 was representative of all migrants from the Cobh Heritage Centre and the Immigration Museum Ellis Iceland ever erected a bronze statue of Annie Moore.