When Marie Andrine Jonette Glad was born on 1 January 1864, in Blokken, Sortland Prestegjeld, Nordland, Norway, her father, Petter Martinus Glad, was 41 and her mother, Christine Christiane Ellingsen, was 30. She married Rasmus Martinus Jacobsen Vinsryg on 28 December 1885, in Sortland, Sortland Prestegjeld, Nordland, Norway. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Stryn, Nordre Bergenhus, Norway in 1900 and Chautauqua, New York, United States in 1920. She died on 7 January 1937, in Jamestown, Chautauqua, New York, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Lake View Cemetery, Jamestown, Chautauqua, New York, United States.