Susanna Gersons was born in Tilburg on 17 February 1868. She married there on 13 June 1894 the stockbroker Joseph Heijmans from Appeltern, who was born there on 6 November 1861. The couple had six children, namely Benjamin, Nathan, Elizabeth, Abraham Barend, Jacob and Henriette. Benjamin Heijmans died as a baby on 7 September 1895 in Alphen aan den Rijn, just three months old. The eldest of the si…