- There are two data extraction records in the above extraction. The top one was found in a September 2005 Ancestry search of Dutch Immigrants.
- The second extraction is from the actual the National Archive's Immigration Ship Manifest microfilm obtained in February 2006. Key scans from this manifest are shown below.
- When the manifest was viewed, it was found that the name above Martha Tanis was Pieter van der Kloot, who was the brother of Adrianus van der Kloot and future husband of Martha. Adrianus had arrived a year earlier and had asked her to come so they could be married.
- In a review of this information with Betsy Strand, she wrote that "her mother told her that Peter had gone to Holland to accompany Martha to the USA to wed Adrianus. It was not thought proper for Adrianus to do so." Thus it appears that Pieter van der Kloot had also arrived in either 1881 or earlier in 1882 to work with his brothers and cousins at the Vanderkloot Iron Works in Chicago and had then returned to Holland to accompany his brother's future spouse to Chicago. However, the record for Pieter's arrival for 1881 has not been found, so it is possible this he was traveling for the first time.
- Martha Tanis was born 28 March 1857 and would have been 25 years old on the date of arrival of 9 September 1882 and not 24 as indicated above.
- Pieter was born 1 April 1860 and would have been 22 on the date of arrival of 9 September 1882 and not 23 as indicated above.
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- A discrepancy on the Dutch Immigrant data is that our Martha Tanis was unmarried at the time of her arrival, not marrying Adrianus until 26 December 1882. However, perhaps the extractor assumed she was with Pieter, though it is not known from what record this data originally came from.
- Another area of possible discrepancy was that both Pieter and Martha were listed as farmers. Pieter as far as we know was always a blacksmith although it is possible he was a farmer on Texel at the same time as blacksmithing. Martha's stepfather was a farmer, and perhaps she just put that down.
- There was some speculation that Martha had come over with cousins and had stayed with them in New Jersey for a while before proceeding to Chicago. However, there are no recognizable names, at least to me near her name on the manifest. Thus it is likely she and Pieter, after arriving in New York at Castle Garden, boarded a ferry to New Jersey and then boarded a train for Chicago. What an experience it must have been for a young woman who grew up on a rural farm in Haarlemmermeer to see the bustle of New York harbor and then be part of the rebuilding and rapid expansion of Chicago in those early days.
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