ID: 11243
Date of birth : 1866
Place of birth : Dalasýsla
Date of death : 1938
Magnús Jónsson: Born in Dalasýsla in 1866. He died in 1937. He took the last name Myrdal in the west.
Spouse: 1) 1891 Þorbjörg Gísladóttir b. 1862. Died 1893. 2) 1903 Þorbjörg Runólfsdóttir
Children: With first wife: 1. Jóhanna Þorbjörg. With second wife: 1. Þorvaldur 2. Sesselja Laufey
Þorbjörg Runólfsdóttir was a widow and earlier gave birth to Einar and Jóhann Þorvaldsson.
Magnús and Þorbjörg Gísladóttir came west in 1889 and settled in New Iceland.
Þorbjörg Runólfsdóttir came west in 1902 and lived with Magnús in the Geysir Settlement for a while before they moved to Árborg.