When Pouline Lausten was born on 9 January 1871, in Gundersted, Slet, Ålborg, Denmark, her father, Niels Peder Laustsen, was 27 and her mother, Inger Kirstine Nielsdatter, was 34. She married Christian Vilhelm Svendsen on 5 November 1897, in Gundersted, Slet, Ålborg, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 6 sons. She lived in Lundby, Slet, Ålborg, Denmark in 1906 and Bislev, Hornum, Ålborg, Denmark in 1911. She died on 1 December 1950, in Ejdrup, Års, Ålborg, Denmark, at the age of 79, and was buried in Ejdrup, Nibe, Nordjylland, Denmark.