Leentje van Geldere was a daughter of Salomon van Geldere and Sophia Polak; she was born in Rotterdam on 13 December 1867 and lived at home with her parents. Of this family, she was the seventh of the thirteen children in this family. Leentje remained unmarried.
She lived with her parents and sibs at Kipstraat 64, at Goudsesingel 118 and at Hoogstraat 156a in Rotterdam, where her father Salomon wa…