When Barbro Torjusdotter Bjelland was born in 1762, her father, Torjus Persson, was 32 and her mother, Brita Sjursdotter, was 28. She married Johannes Olsson Vika in 1790, in Skånevik, Skånevik, Hordaland, Norway. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She died about 1852, at the age of 90.