When Elise Serine Sivertsen was born on 20 October 1861, in Tromsø, Troms, Norway, her father, Sivert Thoresen, was 40 and her mother, Lorenthine Larsdr, was 37. She married Hans Ericksen Lundlie in 1879. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 3 June 1944, in Kirkenes, Finnmark, Norway, at the age of 82.