Headstone to honour emigrant

THE first immigrant to arrive on America’s Ellis Island over a century ago is to finally get a headstone over her unmarked grave.

Annie Moore left Cobh, Co Cork, and on January 1, 1892, she became the first recorded arrival at Ellis Island in New York Harbour.

Statues of the teenage immigrant stand either side of the Atlantic — one on the quayside in Cobh featuring Annie and two siblings; the other at the Ellis Island Museum.