Maurits Godschalk was the youngest of the nine children of Salomon Godschalk and Willemina de Lange. He was born in Ommen on 20 December 1882. He married Leentje Coltof in Den Helder on 13 April 1910, who was born in Gorredijk on 1 October 1886 as daughter of Jacob Coltof and Matje Zeckel. The Godschalk-Coltof couple had two children, who were born in Ommen, namely Willemina Matje on 11 February 1…