Ramcharan-Crowley

Name: Jeremiah Crowley Home in 1900: Peoria Ward 6, Peoria, Illinois Age: 17 (should be 47) Estimated Birth Year: abt 1883 (should be 1853) BirthPlace: Ireland Relationship to head-of-house: Head Spouses's Name: Kate Race: White Occupation: View Image Immigration year: 1879 Neighbors: View others on page Household Members: Name Age Jeremiah Crowley 17 Kate Crowley 40 Jes Crowley 11 William Crowley 10 Michael Crowley 8 Marie Crowley 6 Lottie Crowley 4 Jalie Hayley 19 [Julia Healy]

Edit Delete Copy Name: Jeremiah Crowley Arrival Date: 29 Apr 1880 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1856 Age: 24 Gender: Male Port of Departure: Liverpool, England and Queenstown, Ireland Destination: United States of America Place of Origin: Ireland Ship Name: Algeria Port of Arrival: New York Line: 41 Microfilm Serial: M237 Microfilm Roll: 425 List Number: 463 Port Arrival State: New York Port Arrival Country: United States

Marie: What you have to know about Ireland is no Irishmen owned land in Ireland before 1912. In 1912, the Irish got the right to buy their own land. But my grandfather had a lease on this farm and my mother said a 99 year lease. So when he died, his son got the lease on the land and my grandmother, she didn’t want to live with her son’s wife, and that would be the way…and my grandmother had one daughter, eleven, and my mother, and they decided to come to America. And she would still leave two girls at home in Ireland. Narrator: Marie’s mother hadn’t met her future husband at this point but he, too, decided to leave Ireland. Maria: My father’s people were tenant farmers and he worked for a very wealthy Irishman named Simon Hagerty, and he wanted to come to America. And he was the first of his family. In fact, he was the oldest in the family and so he was anxious to get to America. And my father found out that my mother was coming to America and she worked for the Cronins. And so he called at this Cronin’s residence and he said “Miss Dinan, I understand you’re going to America.” And she said “Yes,” and he said “If we travel in a party of five we can get rates.” Narrator: Cheaper shipping rates? Maria: Yeah. So, she said “Is it you or your sons who are going to America?” And he said “No…? It is I, Madam.” (laughs) And so that was how they met. And my mother was, I would say, 19 or 20. Narrator: At that stage, do you think that he already had his eye on your mother? Marie: No…. Narrator: Romantically? Marie: No. They were here in America three years before they married.