When Elisabeth Joanna Adriana Adriaensen was born on 4 December 1894, in Rijkevorsel, Antwerp, Belgium, her father, Jacobus Adriaensen, was 42 and her mother, Dymphna Maria Francisca Boeckx, was 37. She died on 20 April 1971, in Hoogstraten, Antwerp, Belgium, at the age of 76.