Marcus Hemelrijk was the sixth of the nine children of Jacob Barend Hemelrijk and Mala Sardiner. He was born on 2 November 1858 in Winterswijk and married on 5 October 1885 in Lüdinghausen in Prussia (Germany) to Dina Strauss, who was born on 6 December 1860 in Seppenrade (Germany) as a daughter of Abraham Strauss and Maria Magdalena Nohlen.
Marcus and Dina lived in Winterswijk, where their childr…