Maatje (Tanis) Perry (1904 - 1982)

Born 20 Jan 1904 in Paterson, N.J.

Ancestors

Wife of Frank Hyler Perry Jr. — married 24 Nov 1926 in Grace Methodist Ch, Paterson, NJ

Descendants

Died 21 Nov 1982 at age 78 in Paterson, N.J.

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Biography

Mattie Tanis was born in Paterson New Jersey. Throughout her childhood, she lived with her large family on Bergen Street. Although the 1910 census demonstrates that the entire Tanis family was able to speak English, the 1920 census listed Dutch as the mother tongue of even the New Jersey born children.

Starting in her mid-teens, Mattie worked as a winder and silk warper in the Paterson silk mills ^[1]. After her marriage, she was a housewife.

Her father belonged to the Ebenezer Netherland Reformed Church on lower Haledon Avenue in Paterson. She and her sisters felt that this church was far too strict for their tastes. So, when they married, they did so in other churches. ^[2]

Following the death of her husband, she lived with her son in Butler, NJ.

Sources

Headstone, Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa, N.J.

1905 NJ State Census, Passaic County, Paterson, Ward 1, Enumeration District 3, Sheet 10A.

1910 US Census, New Jersey, Passaic County, Paterson, Ward 1, Enumeration District 90, Sheet 10B.

1915 NJ State Census, Passaic County, Paterson, Ward 1, Enumeration District 3, Sheets B11 and A12.

1920 US Census, New Jersey, Passaic County, Paterson, Ward 1, Enumeration District 67, Sheet 12B.

1. ↑ 1920 US Census, New Jersey, Passaic County, Paterson, Ward 1, Enumeration District 67, Sheet 12B.
2. ↑ Personal recollections of Doris Perry, January 2020.

Acknowledgments

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