De married Irene Nijs. Irene (daughter of Nijs, Henricus (Henk) and Johanna Adriana Maria "Jopie" Mermans) was born on 11 Jun 1962 in Nijmegen Netherlands. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nijs, married Johanna Adriana Maria "Jopie" Mermans in 1962 in Nijmegen Netherlands, and was divorced. Johanna (daughter of Antonius Johannus Maria "Ton" Mermans and Elisabeth Martha Maria "Bets" Segers) was born on 4 Jun 1936 in Nijmegen, Netherlands; died on 16 Jul 2020. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Estimate year

Notes:

His first profession was that of tailor.

He worked as a tailor in Germany. He said that at the time they would sit on the tailor's table to do their work.

Later he got in the Hotel business.

When he got married, his parents bought him a hotel in Nijmegen. He was an extrovert and quite suited to being a hotel owner-could befriend anyone.

Hotel Pays-Bas, was first taken over by the Germans during WW2 to become their regional headquarters. At that time, from September 1944 to May 1945 he fled with his wife and 5 children via a wood burning taxi (a taxi with a trailer behind it with a wood burning stove to fuel the car because there was no gasoline) from Nijmegen to Breda (70 miles) and moved in with his sister-in-law Riet, brother-in-law Jan and their two kids.

Later on the allied forces bombed the Hotel Pays-Bas and it was completely destroyed.

After the war he worked for a few years as a kitchen supply salesman. He opened a small hotel in an old hospital building; bought a second small hotel in Driesden; and eventually in 1950 with war time reparations he was able to build a restaurant, again called Pays-Bas that mainly catered weddings and parties.

Antonius married Elisabeth Martha Maria "Bets" Segers on 2 Jun 1934. Elisabeth (daughter of Adrianus Petrus Wilhelmus "Janus" Segers and Adriana Maria "Naan" Jonkers) was born on 5 Sep 1909 in Breda Netherlands; died in 1981 in Nijmegen Netherlands. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was one of 7 children, and initially worked at home in the jewelry business of her dad.
After she was married she raised 6 children and asssisted her husband in running the hotel/restaurant.
After his death, she continued to run the restaurant together, at different times, with Addie and Kees (Casey)
In 1960 the restaurant closed and became the student society house for the University.