Il est marié avec Francina Mathilda Eleonora Van Der Waal.
Ils se sont mariés le 25 octobre 1911 à Soerabaya, Java, Dutch East Indies, il avait 46 ans.
J.B.H. (Herman) Asbeek Brusse was an adventurer. He went to South-Africa in 1895 and fought with the "Boers" against the English, was captured while defending a railroad station and extradited back to The Netherlands in 1900.
He went to the Dutch East Indies in 1908 to join his brother Frits. In 1910 Herman Asbeek Brusse is listed as the manager of a cement factory "Marmojo" in Soerabaja.
His marriage to Francisca Van der Waal did not last very long and they either separated or divorced around 1915.
In 1916 he took a trip back to The Netherlands (See his travel passport) and returned to Soerabaya in 1917.
Herman returned to The Netherlands after the second world war.
His marriage was not registered in the civil registry of the Netherlands.
Herman Asbeek Brusse is not known to have any children.