Johannes Hendrik Rooijers & Marchien Overmars - great-grandparents
Johannes Hendrik Rooijers was born on 22 April 1911 in Haarlem, Noord-Holland. His father, already 53, was a house painter and his mother, 40 years old (his father's second wife) was a gravedigger's daughter. They had married in 1896 and had three children over the next three years, then another twelve years went by before Johannes was born.
Marchien Overmars was born on 18 August 1916 in Haarlemmerlierde, Noord-Holland. Her father had various jobs with the railway, including clerk and boilermaker. Marchien had one younger sister.
Johannes and Marchien married on 5 August 1942 in Haarlem. They had two daughters. Marchien died on 14 August 1981 in Haarlem aged 64; Jan died there on 29 September 1990 aged 79.