Isabella Roy was born May 6, 1900, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Her parents were Thomas Roy and Malvina Antaya, who were married in 1890 in Fall River. Thomas, also known at Thomas King in early records including the 1900 census, was born in St. Albans, Vermont, in 1864, and died in Fall River in 1957, at the age of 93. Malvina was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, in 1866, and died in Fall River in 1938, at the age of 72.

The Roys had at least five children: Lillie (1891), Malvina (1892), Bertha (1894), Isabella (1900), and Jeanette (1905). Both parents worked in the cotton mills, once a thriving industry in the area. Isabella (called Bella) married Joachim Pierre Durette (called Peter) on April 20, 1920. They had five children, including Lorraine, the mother of Melissa Belbahri, the woman who contacted me.

In the 1920 census, Bella was working as a speeder tender in a cotton mill, and her sister Jeanette was a doffer. According to her husband Peter's 1942 WWII draft registration, he and Isabella were living in Fall River, at 60 Ridge St, a triple-decker house built in 1900, according to current real estate records. Peter listed his employer as the King Philip Mill, a complex which is now listed on the National Historic Register.

Isabella Roy Durette passed away in Fall River on March 13, 1986, at the age of 85. Her daughter Lorraine died less than a year later. Her sister Jeanette Roy Duff (also in Hine photo) died in Fall River in 1990, at the age of 84. The other girl in the photo, Isabella's cousin Anita (also called Annette) Roy Gifford, died in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1977, at the age of 74.