When Kierstin Danielsson was born on 21 April 1775, in Gnosjö, Jönköping, Sweden, her father, Daniel Johansson, was 53 and her mother, Ingeborg Persson, was 37. She married Daniel Svensson on 28 December 1798. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 3 March 1852, in her hometown, at the age of 76, and was buried in Gnosjö, Jönköping, Sweden.