Michiel de Wael

[1] Michiel was the son of the wealthy Haarlem brewer and burgomaster Jan Michielsz de Wael (1557–1618) and Cornelia Anthonisdr Juyst.

In 1582 his father Jan de Wael had married Cornelia Anthonisdr Juyst in Delft, aka Neeltje Thonis, from Brouwershaven.

[3][4] Michiel had an elder brother Jan, a magistrate and burgomaster of Haarlem,[5] involved in the tulip mania[6] and in 1650 locked up in Loevestein; a brother Anthony, lawyer in Monnikendam[7] and a sister Geertruyd ,[8] founder of Hofje van Guurtje de Waal.

In 1656 their 18-year-old, youngest daughter Josina married the 32-year-old Alkmaar writer Sierik Siersma in Haarlem.

[12] She inherited the portraits by Frans Hals of her parents and they were handed down via her descendants until the beginning of the 1800s.