Nathan Bernhard van Blijdestein was a son of the butcher Machiel van Blijdestein and Schönette Frank. Nathan was a religious teacher. He married 22 November 1905 in Amsterdam Sophia Kransberg from Zutphen, a daughter of Simon Levie Kransberg and Marianne Philips. In 1906, the couple had a son, born in Emmen (province of Drenthe). Nothing is further known about him. In 1915 their son Louis was born…