Biography
Janet Johnstone Roy was born 1895 in Milmathort, Scotland. Worked as a laborer. Immigrated to the United States in 1916.
Supported the Independent Labour Party before emigrating.
In Lawrence, Massachusetts, she joined the Socialist Party and the IWW’s Textile Workers Industrial Union No. 1000. After moving to Chicago and then Seattle, she was arrested with her sister in a police raid on an IWW hall in October 1918. She married Ian V. MacKay, a naturalized U.S. citizen, in January 1919. Deported July 23, 1919.
She later reunited with her husband in British Columbia, where she died in 1972.
Adapted from Kenyon Zimmer, Red Scare Deportees (kenyonzimmer.com), compiled from INS deportation case files.
The Ellis Island list identifies Janet Roy with sister Margaret among arrivals on March 27, 1919. That arrival is a detention transfer, not final deportation or release. The established July 23 deportation and married-name history remain unchanged.
The One Big Union Monthly, June 1920, vol. 2 no. 6, PDF page 39.
