Complex sentence: When Vincent was not quite one year old his father, Toaly, decided to move the family, his wife and seven children to New York in search of a better life, though after settling in the Bronx in 1909, they remained trapped in poverty.
Split into simpler sentences: When Vincent was not quite one year old his father, Toaly, decided to move the family, his wife, and seven children to New York in search of a better life. After settling in the Bronx in 1909, they remained trapped in poverty.