Family Reunion: A Line of Mothers II
The Other Side
For the seven years leading up to the publication of The Callin Family History, I mostly focused on my paternal ancestry. I had a head start on my Callin line, thanks to the 1911 version of the Callin Family History, and my goal was to find as many of the descendants of James Callin as I could.
This week, I’m looking in the “other direction” and taking a look at the mothers. On Wednesday, we traced my wife’s maternal ancestry, and today, we will trace the mothers of my mother. This is referred to as the “matrilineal line” and this is the line of descent tested using Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). You can learn more about that from the National Human Genome Research Institute or from this very detailed Wikipedia article.
For the sake of respecting the privacy of living people, we’ll start with my late maternal grandmother:
Tuttle
Alberta (Tuttle) Clark (1925-2017) was the younger daughter of Alfred James Tuttle (1892–1973) and Edna Lyle Frey (1895–1985), born on 29 Aug 1925 in New Jersey. She married Russell Hudson Clark on 2 Mar 1946 in Irvington, Essex County, New Jersey.
Frey
Edna Lyle (Frey) Tuttle (1895 - 1985) was the eldest daughter of Emil Carl Frey (1869–1936) and Emily Amelia Opp (1872–1913), born on 20 Jul 1895 in Newark, Essex, New Jersey. Edna married Alfred James Tuttle in New Jersey in 1917.
Opp
Emily Amelia (Opp) Frey (1871 - 1913) was the youngest child of three born to Jacob Edward Opp and Mary Elizabeth Palmer. She was most likely born in December 1872 in the state of New York, and her family resided in Paterson, Passaic County, and in Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey. Amelia married Emil Carl Frey on 16 May 1893 in Newark, Essex, New Jersey.
Palmer
Mary Elizabeth (Palmer) Opp (1837 - 1889) was born about 1837 in New York. She married Jacob Edward Opp in 1867. Other researchers have recorded her as the daughter of Samuel Peterson and Mary (Hoffman) Peterson, of Middlesex County, New Jersey, and so the work continues.
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