When Niels Lauridsen was born on 16 January 1825, in Åtte, Føvling, Ribe, Denmark, his father, Laurids Knudsen, was 36 and his mother, Kirsten Nielsdatter, was 35. He married Frederikke Hansdatter on 26 November 1858, in Brørup, Ribe, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Føvling, Malt, Ribe, Denmark in 1850. He died on 6 April 1905, in Vester Nebel, Ribe, Denmark, at the age of 80, and was buried in Vester Nebel, Ribe, Denmark.