When Mariane Lausten was born on 10 March 1857, in Gunderup, Ålborg, Denmark, her father, Laust Jacobsen, was 42 and her mother, Karen Marie Christensdatter, was 28. She married Søren Svendsen on 23 July 1878, in Gunderup, Aalborg, Nordjylland, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Nøvling, Ålborg, Denmark in 1890 and Hedegårde, Horsens, Ålborg, Denmark in 1890. She died on 10 January 1925, in Ålborg, Aalborg, Nordjylland, Denmark, at the age of 67, and was buried in Almen Kirkegård, Ålborg, Aalborg, Nordjylland, Denmark.