Maurits Schenk was a son of Joseph Levie Schenk and Aaltje Rubens, a family of four children, of whom one son has died only one month old in August 1870. The other siblings of Maurits were Levie and Jette.
After the death in 1876 of Maurits' father, Joseph Levi Schenk, Aaltje Rubens remarried in 1878 to Hendrik Sternfeld, with whom she had again six children, of whom the first born child died onl…