Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameJohanna Hendrika Geerts
Birth27 Dec 1903, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Census1925, Richmond Hill, Queens Co, NY
MemoED 45, AD 5, pg 37
Census4 Apr 1930, New York, Queens Co, NY
Memoroll#1607, pg 5
Census6 Apr 1940, Brooklyn, Kings Co, NY
Memoroll#2617, pg 6
Death2 Jan 1991, Syosset, Nassau Co, NY
Burial7 Jan 1991, Long Island Nat’l Cem, East Farmingdale, Suffolk Co, NY
Memo2L 0 8509
FatherAnton Geerts (1880-1943)
MotherMargje Hagan (1881-)
Misc. Notes
Johanna obtained her US citizenship in 1917.
She was married to Thomas J. Moran (1896, NY) about 1924 and they are in the 1925 NY census for Richmond Hill in Queens with their year-old son, Thomas; her sister Henricka, and a couple cousins.
In the 1930 Queens census, she is working as a silk winder (26, HOL) in a silk mill, while Thomas is a clerk in a publishing office. Their son is Thomas (6, NY).
They had moved to Brooklyn by 1940, where it shows Thomas (Sr) as being born in New Jersey, and Thomas Jr at age 16 and in high school.
Headstone inscription: US ARMY MUS/2 WW I
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