Godard van Gelderen was a son of Abraham van Gelderen and Mietje Zilverberg. He married 21 September 1932 in Amsterdam to Lea Bril, a daughter of Isaac Bril and Mietje Boeken.
The couple had no children.
When his mother died on 19 April 1931, his father remarried on 7 December 1932 in Amsterdam to S…