When Else Isachsen was born in 1753, in Vester Torup, Thisted, Denmark, her father, Isach Nielsen Moller, was 39 and her mother, Dorthe Krag, was 42. She married Mads Christensen on 17 December 1777, in Vester Torup, Thisted, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 28 January 1836, in her hometown, at the age of 83, and was buried in Vester Torup, Thisted, Denmark.