When Anna Maria Catharina VOLCKAERTS was born on 5 December 1872, her father, Petrus Franciscus Volckaerts, was 41 and her mother, Maria Van Herck, was 26. She married Joannes Franciscus Lavriens Sur DE ROOVER on 15 April 1896, in Baal, Tremelo, Flemish Brabant, Belgium. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 1 August 1951, at the age of 78.