Sijke Taekema, born in Harlingen on December 4, 1903, daughter of Taeke Taekema (dock hand, docker, beerbottler's hand and longshoreman) and Harmke Tigchelaar.

Sijke was married in Rotterdam on June 25, 1924, at the age of 20 to
Anthony van der Vloedt (aged approximately 23 years), born in Rotterdam circa 1901, son of Jan Simon van der Vloedt and Wilhelmina Susanna Hendrika van der Roer, boterbezorger.