Gerrit Barend was a son of Abraham Barend and Rebekka Cartoef. He was born on 4 November 1872 in Amsterdam and he was a peddlar but also a diamondworker and diamond-rose cutter. On 15 August 1894 he married Heintje Visser in Amsterdam, a daughter of Barend Visser and Sientje Abraham Berkhof. She was born in Amsterdam on 26 May 1870.
Gerrit and Heintje had twelve children alltogether. However Bloem…