When Mariane Mortensdatter was born on 23 December 1847, in Stagsted, Skæve, Børglum, Denmark, her father, Morten Christensen, was 46 and her mother, Ingeborg Thomasdatter, was 38. She married Martin Herald Pedersen about 1868, in Stagsted, Skæve, Børglum, Denmark. She lived in Skæve, Dronninglund, Hjørring, Denmark for about 10 years and Volstrup, Dronninglund, Hjørring, Denmark in 1901. She died in March 1927, at the age of 79.