Antonius Johannus Maria "Ton" Mermans

Antonius Johannus Maria "Ton" Mermans

Male 1904 - 1956  (51 years)

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  • Name Antonius Johannus Maria "Ton" Mermans 
    Born 16 Nov 1904  Breda, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Died 21 May 1956  Nijmegen, Netherlands. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID P2  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 27 Jul 2022 

    Father Cornelis Adrianus Benedictus Mermans,   b. 20 Aug 1877, Teteringen, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Dec 1943, Nijmegen, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years) 
    Mother Johanna Henrica Elisabeth Petronella Bruijns,   b. 14 Apr 1881, Breda, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Aug 1951, Nijmegen, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years) 
    Married 14 Sep 1903  Breda, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Family ID F11  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elisabeth Martha Maria "Bets" Segers,   b. 5 Sep 1909, Breda Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1981, Nijmegen Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years) 
    Married 2 Jun 1934 
    Children 
     1. Adriana Johanna Maria "Addie" Mermans,   b. 20 Nov 1934, Nijmegen, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Jan 2009  (Age 74 years)  [natural]
     2. Johanna Adriana Maria "Jopie" Mermans,   b. 4 Jun 1936, Nijmegen, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Jul 2020  (Age 84 years)  [natural]
     3. Cornelis Adrianus Maria "Casey, Kees" Mermans,   b. 8 Dec 1938, Nijmegen, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years)  [natural]
     4. Cornelia Johanna Maria "Cokky" Mermans,   b. 3 Dec 1940, Nijmegen Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Oct 2016, Renkum, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years)  [natural]
     5. Josephina Goverdina Maria "Jos" Mermans,   b. 18 Jul 1944, Nijmegen Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years)  [natural]
     6. Maria Johanna Theresia "Janny" Mermans,   b. 25 May 1946, Nijmegen Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years)  [natural]
    Last Modified 6 Apr 2021 
    Family ID F2  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
    Ton Mermans
    Ton Mermans
    Oma & Opa Mermans Wedding
    Oma & Opa Mermans Wedding
    June 2, 1934

    Breda, Holland

    Marriage of Ton Mermans and Bets Segers left to right: Tante Riet, Tante Addie, Ton, Bets, Tante Corrie, Oom Sjef
    Mermans Family
    Mermans Family
    Mermans Family

    1935

    Nijmegen, Holland

    Here are four generations of the Mermans family. Baby is Addie Mermans, her parents Ton Mermans and Bets Segers, Grandparents Cornelis Mermans (seated left) and Johanna Bruyns (seated right) and Great Grandmother Clara Kools (center seated) in front of the Hotel Pays Bas in Nijmegen. Cornelis…
    Ton Mermans
    Ton Mermans
    Ton Mermans
    Ton Mermans
    Mermans Family
    Mermans Family
    Nijmegen, Holland

    Ton Mermans, Bets "Segers" Mermans and their six children. Far left back: Ton Mermans, Janny Mermans, Bets Mermans, Addie Mermans. Far left front: Kees Mermans, Cokki Mermans, Josje Mermans, Jopie Mermans

  • 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.

  • Sources 
    1. [S256720820] Netherlands, Birth Index, 1787-1915, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).

    2. [S256720844] Netherlands, Civil Marriage Index, 1795-1950, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).



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