When Elsebeth Kirstine Hansdatter Piil was born in 1747, in Klemensker, Bornholm, Denmark, her father, Hans Hansen Piil, was 52 and her mother, Anna Madsdatter Kofoed, was 42. She married Claus Flyng Koefoed on 2 December 1768, in Klemensker, Bornholm, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 21 January 1831, in Pedersker, Bornholm, Denmark, at the age of 84, and was buried in Pedersker, Bornholm, Denmark.