When Peder Johnsen Tuset was born in 1859, in Tuset, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway, his father, John Sakkariassen Tuset, was 32 and his mother, Ingeborg Pedersdatter Hegset, was 26. He married Marit Jonsdtr in 1885. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He died in 1948, in Selbu Prestegjeld, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway, at the age of 89, and was buried in Selbu Prestegjeld, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway.