When Anna Anthonia Rijnierse was born on 14 April 1874, in Sloten, Friesland, Netherlands, her father, Jacobus Johannes Rijnierse, was 36 and her mother, Agnes Catharina Bergman, was 33. She married Wilhelmus Miltenburg on 4 August 1904, in Sloten, Friesland, Netherlands. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 23 March 1955, in Weesp, North Holland, Netherlands, at the age of 80.