Andreas Blom states that the parents had to obtain royal permission to marry, but Jon Nygaard found no documentation that this was the case.
At the marriage, he was referred to as "monsieur," a title used for persons of rank, and they were allowed to be married at home without prior betrothal.
In 1745, at the age of nineteen, Cornelius Paus was employed as an assistant to the county governor of Bratsberg, Johan Frederik von Løvenhielm, who was described as a benefactor of his father.
Cornelius Paus then received the position of forest inspector of Upper Telemark, one of the economically most important forestry regions.
The sale of the family farm in Lårdal must, according to Nygaard, be seen in connection with all the children having established themselves as burghers in Skien by that time.
Cornelius Paus is described by B. Blom as "an exceptionally skilled woodcarver and a rarely kind and good man.