October 13, 1863	Conall and Nola MacKay, a pair of Irish immigrants to North America give birth to a daughter to be named Eavan Ainsley. The pregnancy comes as a complete surprise as the pair had just married the previous December. Due to complications with the pregnancy and their nomadic lifestyle, the MacKays decide not to have any more children. Eva proves to be a happy and easy baby however.
1866-1869 Australia	The MacKays move from their home in Nova Scotia to pursue a job opportunity for Conall in Australia.
Summer 1869 Deep Water	On a visit to Conall's family in Wexford, Ireland, Eavan is tailing along after her older cousins when the group decide to take a dip in a lake on the family property. Eva gets too close to the reeds and is pulled under by a pair of grindylows. She has no idea how long she was under, but one of her cousins managed to free her. Ever since she had not had a fondness for deep water or swimming.
1870 Magic!	Eavan displays her first sign of magic by spontaneously summoning medical supplies for her father who was helping an injured diricawl. The baby diricawl, affectionately named Bastien, sparks Eva’s interest in magical birds.
1872 School	With their daughter approaching school age, Conall and Nola decide to return to North America and settle in the forests New Hampshire in the United States so Eavan can attend school at Ilvermorny.
1875-1882 Ilvermorny	Finally her year to go off to school arrives. She very tearfully leaves Bastien behind with her parents and takes the young family cat, Boras, with her. She very obviously excels in Care of Magical creatures, but also finds herself doing well in potions and herbology. Her time is most often spent in the greenhouses or on the grounds with the Creatures professor. Eva focuses on those in hopes to become a magizoologist like her father. Her grades are about as expected; she excels in classes she enjoys and doesn’t do so well in those that hold little interest to her. It’s all for naught really, as she already knows what she wants to do with her life and is more than ready to follow in her father’s footsteps after graduation. (This is all assuming Ilvermorny is seven years as well.
May 1882 Post-Grad	Upon graduation, Eavan joins her father for an apprenticeship. Their large piece of land in New Hampshire boasts a unicorn, a pair of hippogriffs, a small herd of diricawls, an augurey, and some nifflers. They also work with regular animals native to the territory. The MacKays mostly work on rehabilitating animals to release the creatures back into the wild, but sometimes cannot and therefore keep them.
March 1884 Detrimental Loss	Nola becomes ill with a severe case of pneumonia and passes away. Distraught, Conall begins to relocate their current animals in an effort to move. With nothing else to do but follow along, Eavan finds her home uprooted and she's a little disoriented.
July 1884	To add insult to injury, Eavan and Conall learn that Nola's brother, his wife and two of their children lost their lives in a tragic situation in Hogsmeade, though they do not get full details. September of the same year, with most of their homestead gone, Conall and Eavan pick up the pieces and find something new. Conall accepts a position in the Amazon to study creatures there, but the weather disagrees with Eavan immensely and she falls ill. The research trip is set to last two years, but Eavan decides to let her father have his time to mourn on his own. After reaching out to several relatives and beyond, Eavan finds herself somewhere to stay with her Uncle Fergus’ sister-in-law, Sybella Winterdowne. After spending Christmas with her father, Eavan packs up her few belongings and heads to Irvingly where her extended family has offered to take her in. Rumors of a zoo opening near the town give Eavan a bit of a sense of purpose and she intends to seek out Mr. Zachary Podmore to find out more.
1885	Surprisingly, Eavan runs into an old Ilvermorny classmate in Padmore Park during one of her visits. Unsurprisingly, Eva is quick to make lots of friends around town. Between the zoo and the pet shop in Hogsmeade, she’s not short on friends who are also interested in creatures.
1886	Eva makes the acquaintance of a Mr. Fletcher Langley at the World Market this summer in which she ends up acting as a guide through the magical menagerie. Months go by and she doesn’t think much of it or him, until she runs into him again at the Masquerade held at Hogwarts. The school has always fascinated her, considering she went to Ilvermorny and now it’s time for him to return the favor. Eavan makes a right fool out of herself by letting herself be talked into dancing (even though she’s utterly terrible at it) and one good stumble lands both her and Fletcher in the Black Lake. Utterly embarrassed, Eva makes a beeline home.
1887	A few months go by before Eva runs into Fletcher again and is again wildly embarrassed as Bastien gets feisty with him in the park (which is how Eva meets a lot of people). Fortunately he is typically easygoing about it. Eva distracts herself with a new project for the zoo. This May the zoo holds a May Day celebration to unveil their new enclosures; a baby erumpet and a herd of mooncalves. It’s a project Eva worked on with her cousin Una, who has also recently relocated to Irvingly with her brother. The unveiling of the exhibits goes wonderfully and Eva celebrates with her co-workers and family. Later in the summer at an event at the Sandition, Eva runs into Fletcher yet again, though this time it is not so genial of a meeting. Things go awry when they argue on the beach about a misunderstanding in which Fletch had seen Eva dancing with a friend and co-worker at the May Day event. Eavan has thus far been oblivious to any affection he may have held toward her and Eva being Eva, gets defensive. They hash it out right there on the beach and Fletch admits he was jealous, which blows Eavan away because she cannot understand why. Now faced with a predicament she never thought she’d find herself in, they go their separate ways to think this through. It takes her near a month a lot of badgering of her friends on what to do and Eva discovers she has certain reservations about going forward that can only be decided upon firmly after finding out where Fletcher stands on those stipulations. They manage to sort things through, but Eva proceeds cautiously.
1888 The Expedition	A weird fog settles over Hogsmeade and Irvingly that renders magic useless. Eva signs up for the expedition to solve the problem, which winds up with her leading a group through the zoo. They make it pretty far, but Eva is severely injured when a Nile crocodile takes a good chomp out of her midsection. Things with Fletcher hit a head once the fog is lifted and both he and Conall wind up in Eva’s hospital room. Everything sort of settles and Eva finds herself falling harder for Fletch than she imagined and they work their way into a steady relationship, taking things pretty far, talking about getting married and buying a house.
1889 Heartbreak	That summer Eavan is offered her dream job in the Arizona territory studying Thunderbirds. She goes back and forth on what to do, but ultimately plans to decline the offer as she had promised Fletch she wouldn’t travel far anymore. This comes to a head when he finds out that she hadn’t planned on telling him. He had come to propose and their argument effectively ends the relationship. Eva takes the opportunity in Arizona and runs.
1890 Home Again	Eavan returns home in March with a thunderbird and a large, handsome, entanglement. Beau Miller was the best thing she found in Arizona, besides her sense of self. Eva remembered why she loved her work and the whole trip was well worth it. The agreement with Beau still stands while he hovers in Scotland. It of course, cannot be that easy and by July, Eva has experienced what she thought impossible; she’s pregnant. She tells Beau and he immediately suggests they get married. Eva says yes, but she has no idea how hard marriage will be. They have a little backyard wedding and buy a fixer-upper of a farm in Hawthorne Hollow. Late in the summer Beau finds out he’s fathered another child via a woman he had spent a lot of time with in America. She’s in Scotland posing as a wealthy widow, and denies Beau any parenting rights to the son named after him. It causes a lot of drama and causes a lot of fights between Eavan and Beau. Things finally settle once they work out some kinks in their marriage.
1891	Nola Lena is born in March and everything is much more settled.
1892	Because she and Beau can’t keep their hands off one another, a boy, Ronan Conall joins the family in July. They continue to grow their farm, work at the zoo and things are going well enough for now.