Amalia van Gelder was born in Amsterdam on 1 January 1886 as a daughter of Jacob van Gelder and Rosetta Hemelrijk. She married in Amsterdam on 3 June 1907 to the cattle trader Jacob Menko, who was born in Winterswijk as a son of the butcher Nathan Menko and Helena Strauss. The Menko- Hemelrijk couple lived in the Tuunterstraat 7 in Winterswijk, where also their two children were born: Rosette Hele…