Biography
Margaret Roy was born 1893 in Milmathort, Scotland. Worked as a laborer. Immigrated to the United States in 1916.
Emigrated to Canada in 1913, then returned to Scotland in 1916 to retrieve her sister Janet.
In Lawrence, Massachusetts, she and Janet 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 during a raid on an IWW hall in October 1918. She married U.S. citizen Alonzo Ray in January 1919, but was deported July 23, 1919.
Adapted from Kenyon Zimmer, Red Scare Deportees (kenyonzimmer.com), compiled from INS deportation case files.
The Ellis Island list records Margaret and Janet Roy arriving March 27, 1919 from Seattle, Portland and other points. It is evidence of a transfer to Ellis Island, not an initial arrest or an actual deportation on that day; the established later disposition remains unchanged.
The One Big Union Monthly, June 1920, vol. 2 no. 6, PDF page 39.
