When Anna Dorthea Andersen was born on 4 November 1882, her father, Carl Grønbek Andersen, was 20 and her mother, Bodil Marie Hansen, was 26. She married Hans Peder Kristian Jensen on 9 September 1905, in Nørre Jernløse, Merløse, Holbæk, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Roskilde, Roskilde, Denmark in 1921 and Roskilde, Sankt Jørgensbjerg, Copenhagen, Denmark in 1925. She died on 12 March 1968, in Holbæk, Vestsjælland, Denmark, at the age of 85, and was buried in Holbæk, Sankt Nikolai, Merløse, Holbæk, Denmark.