When Aren Jacobson was born in 1690, in Korgen, Hemnes Prestegjeld, Nordland, Norway, his father, Jacob Bendtsoen, was 39 and his mother, Marit Andersdatter, was 30. He married Kirsten Olsdatter in 1735, in Hemnes Prestegjeld, Nordland, Norway. He died in 1738, in Nordland, Norway, at the age of 48, and was buried in Nordland, Norway.