ID: 10070
Date of birth : 1865
Place of birth : S. Þingeyjarsýsla
Þorlákur Jónasson was born in S. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1865.
Spouse: June 20, 1903 Svanborg Pétursdóttir b. in Barðastrandarsýsla in 1864.
Children: 1. Sigurður 2. Jónas 3. Pétur. Svanborg had two children, Pétur b. 1888 and Ólöf b. 1889 with her first husband Jón Jónsson Sauðeying.
Þórlaákur came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1881 with his parents and siblings. They settled in the Garðar settlement. Þorlákur and Svanborg started farming there but sold their land in 1906 and moved to land near Mozart in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan.