IVY CORRIN DILLON

I was born (in) 1905 in Douglas on the Isle of Man.* My mother's grandfather used to buy the whole boat load of fish. Then the whole family had to clean the fish and salt it down. Then he would take to the market in Douglas. When we were children on the Isle of Man, during the war we knitted socks and gloves for the soldiers. Later, my mother went to work in a knitting factory. (My mother) wasn't prepared for Bisbee. Bisbee was quite an ethnic city at the time. There were quite a few people from the Isle of Man in Bisbee. My mother wasn't very happy about it, but she got used to it. 

My Dad came to Bisbee in 1907 and left my mother on the Isle of Man with six children. In 1914 my father came home to visit and the war broke out. He had to return to the States or he would lose his visa. In l918 he sent for the rest of us since the war had just ended. We couldn't get passports until 1919. We were eleven days coming on the ship. We arrived in New York from the Isle of Man in 1919. The train brought us into Lowell at 1:30 a.m., 1919. It was dark and we had to walk to where my Dad had rented a place because he had bought a place and had it leased for a year and the lease wasn't out until September. Our house was in Upper Lowell. 

My mother had a very hard life. She was very proud of her home and liked to keep it very clean. 
* There is a Douglas, Isle of Man, England, wf. 

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