When Elsebe Madsdatter Kofoed was born on 24 May 1688, in Svaneke, Bornholm, Denmark, her father, Mads Poulsen Kofoed, was 25 and her mother, Elizabeth Davidsdatter Wolfsen, was 21. She married Carl Olufsen on 7 January 1707, in Svaneke, Bornholm, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She died in 1736, in Rønne, Bornholm, Denmark, at the age of 48, and was buried in Rønne, Bornholm, Denmark.