When Pieter Scheltus was born in 1773, in Wieringen, North Holland, Netherlands, his father, Nan Pietersz Scheltus, was 37 and his mother, Geertje Pietersdr Bakker, was 31. He married Volke Keyzer in 1798, in Wieringen, North Holland, Netherlands. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 11 July 1847, in his hometown, at the age of 74.