When Ane Magrethe Therkelsdatter was born on 11 September 1840, in Fejø, Maribo, Denmark, her father, Therkild Nielsen, was 27 and her mother, Ane Cathrine Hansdatter Friis, was 23. She married Rasmus Hansen Holm on 1 November 1861, in Radsted, Maribo, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Fejø, Fuglse, Maribo, Denmark for about 5 years and Vigsnæs, Musse, Maribo, Denmark in 1880. She died on 25 January 1882, in Vigsnæs, Maribo, Denmark, at the age of 41, and was buried in Vigsnæs, Maribo, Denmark.