 In 1860, the son of Antoinette, Jan Willem Dierckx, married Josephina Frederika Dessauer, the daughter of an industrialist from Aschaffenburg (Germany).When Jan Willem died in 1866, his widow Josephina became the head of the Brepols Company.In 1868 she remarried with Arthur Dufour, an engineer, who did not involve himself very much in the business of his wife.