Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: N'afọ 1558 n'Antwerp, Tishem lụrụ onye ọchụnta ego bara ọgaranya nke di ya nwụrụ na onye juri, Wouter Gruter (nke a makwaara dị ka "Walterus", "de Gruytere", wdg), onye si Breda. Ha mụrụ ụmụ anọ, a mụrụ Jan na December 1560. Di ya bịanyere aka na nkwekọrịta nke ndị Nobles na 1566, na iji gbanahụ ikpe na Spanish Netherlands, ha kwagara na ndị Dutch Calvinist na-achụpụ obodo Norwich. Ụfọdụ akụkọ ndụ nke Jan Gruter na-ekwu na Tishem sitere na Norwich n'onwe ya, ọ bụ ezie na Thijsmans / Thysmans bụ aha nna Flemish mgbe niile. Mgbe nwa ha nwoke debanyere aha na Mahadum Leiden ọhụrụ na Holland na 1578/1579, Catherine na Wouter laghachiri Antwerp, mana
Mgbukpọ e nọchibidoro Antwerp na 1584 mere ka ha gbapụ ọzọ, na nke ugbu a gaa Lübeck, e mesịakwa gaa Gdańsk. Wouter Gruter nwụrụ na Gdańsk na 1588, na, dị ka Peter Fuchs si kwuo, Catherine nwụrụ na 1595.