When Maria Anders was born on 2 August 1850, in Beuthen, Silesia, Prussia, Germany, her father, August Anders, was 26 and her mother, Louise Elisabeth Katschamarek, was 25. She married Wilhelm Heinrich Julius Friedrich Henschel on 6 August 1874. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. She died on 13 November 1908, at the age of 58.