ID: 10302
Date of birth : 1864
Date of death : 1944
Björn Benjamín Jónsson was born in S. Þingeyjarsýsla on February 14, 1864. He died in the Lakes settlement (Vatnabyggð) on December 31, 1944. He took the last name Axfjörð in the west.
Spouse: July 10, 1897 Valgerður Þorláksdóttir b. January 13, 1873 in N. Þingeyjarsýsla, d. in Saskatchewan on September 24, 1959.
Children: 1. Kristveig b. 1898 2. Gunnlaugur Stefán b. 1900, d. 1923 3. Þorlákur 4. Halldór b. in Baldur, Manitoba on June 21,1909.
They came west to Manitoba in 1903 with Kristveig and Gunnlaugur Stefán and settled in Baldur. They moved from there to the Hólar settlement near Leslie in the Lakes settlement (Vatnabyggð).