Emanuel Staal’s first marriage was to Lea Wijl. This marriage produced five children: Sientje (who died young), David, Branca, Jacob and one child who survived the war and died soon afterwards. Lea Wijl died in 1889, and Emanuel remarried. His second wife had one child from an earlier marriage, Andries Groenewoudt. Two children were born of this second marriage: Sara and Geertruida (who died young…