When Johanna Berntine Ellingsen was born on 20 September 1828, in Skagstad, Nordland, Norway, her father, Jens Christian Ellingsen, was 32 and her mother, Jonetta Carolina Rosenvinge Ellingsen, was 33. She married Peder Johan Olai Meisler on 27 April 1852, in Steigen, Nordland, Norway. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Steigen, Nordland, Norway in 1828. She died on 8 December 1871, in Meland, Nordland, Norway, at the age of 43, and was buried in Værøy, Nordland, Norway.