Text: "Cornelis’s date of birth is not known. He was a grocer by trade, and in 1553 he bought a house in Maarsmansteeg in Leiden, almost directly opposite the parental home in Breestraat and a stone’s throw away from his sister Maria. It must have been around then that he married Maritgen Willems. They had at least four children, including a daughter called Beatrix ... the other three (Quirijn, Dirckgen and had either left the nest by then or had died"
