When Bjørn Arnesen Dølve was born about 1612, in Dølve, Oppland, Norway, his father, Arne Bjørnsen Olsgård, was 32 and his mother, Siri Mortensdatter Øyhus, was 32. He married Mrs Bjørn Arnesen Dølve about 1662, in Sør-Aurdal, Oppland, Norway. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died in 1691, in Sør-Aurdal, Oppland, Norway, at the age of 79.