When Johanna Petrine Jacobsdatter was born on 21 April 1842, in Vevelstad, Nordland, Norway, her father, Jacob Mathias Lorentsen, was 28 and her mother, Pernille Marie Nilsdatter, was 26. She married Anders Andersen on 5 January 1868, in Tjøtta kirke, Nordland, Norway. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 14 September 1927, in Tjøtta, Alstahaug Prestegjeld, Nordland, Norway, at the age of 85.