John Quarles was warden of the broadcloth buyers guild in London in 1570. Willem († 1688), a lineal descendant born in England, who was employed by the VOC, settled in the Netherlands and became warden of the Bailiff of Schieland (bailiwick…
The QuarlesvanUfford family is Dutch nobility, and Willem wanted Hendrik to find and marry a woman of similar rank. Netje, who had been born in Semarang, was an orphan from a non-noble Dutch family.