Antonius Johannus Maria "Ton" Mermans

1904 - 1956  (51 years)

• Name	Antonius Johannus Maria "Ton" Mermans
  Born	16 Nov 1904	Breda, Netherlands   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	21 May 1956	Nijmegen, Netherlands.
  Person ID	P2	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	27 Jul 2022

  
  

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

  
  

  Family	Elisabeth Martha Maria "Bets" Segers,   b. 5 Sep 1909, Breda Netherlands ,   d. 1981, Nijmegen Netherlands  (Age 71 years)
  Married	2 Jun 1934
  Children	1. Adriana Johanna Maria "Addie" Mermans,   b. 20 Nov 1934, Nijmegen, Netherlands ,   d. Jan 2009  (Age 74 years)  [natural]   2. Johanna Adriana Maria "Jopie" Mermans,   b. 4 Jun 1936, Nijmegen, Netherlands ,   d. 16 Jul 2020  (Age 84 years)  [natural]   3. Cornelis Adrianus Maria "Casey, Kees" Mermans,   b. 8 Dec 1938, Nijmegen, Netherlands  (Age 85 years)  [natural]   4. Cornelia Johanna Maria "Cokky" Mermans,   b. 3 Dec 1940, Nijmegen Netherlands ,   d. 26 Oct 2016, Renkum, Netherlands  (Age 75 years)  [natural]   5. Josephina Goverdina Maria "Jos" Mermans,   b. 18 Jul 1944, Nijmegen Netherlands  (Age 80 years)  [natural]   6. Maria Johanna Theresia "Janny" Mermans,   b. 25 May 1946, Nijmegen Netherlands  (Age 78 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2021
  Family ID	F2	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Ton Mermans
  		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 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…
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  		Ton Mermans
  		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

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