When Jons Regnersson was born on 28 April 1745, in Södra Möinge, Skåne, Sweden, his father, Reinard Truedsson, was 38 and his mother, Boel Mattisdotter, was 28. He married Kierstena Pehrsdotter on 15 December 1776. He died on 5 May 1809, in Sibbarp, Skåne, Sweden, at the age of 64.