ID: 10712
Date of birth : 1858
Place of birth : N. Þingeyjarsýsla
Jóhann Gestsson was born in 1858 in N. Þingeyjarsýsla.
Spouse: April 25, 1882 Jóhanna Jónsdóttir b. January 16, 1860 in N. Þingeyjarsýsla.
Children: 1. Arnþrúður b. 1882, d. 1882 2. Arnþrúður Kristlaug b. 1884, d. 1888 3. Sigurjón b. April 11, 1888 4. Gestur b. September 2, 1890 5. Jónas b. February 26, 1893 6. Kristín b. July 27, 1895 7. Daníel Thorberg b. 1897 8. Jóhann b. May 19, 1899 9. Guðni b. May 9, 1901. Two other children died young. They had a foster daughter, Svava, b. March 3, 1898.
They emigrated west to Canada in 1883 and moved south to N. Dakota the same year. They first lived in Grafton, then in Crystal, but in 1892 they bought land east of Garðar where they lived 35 years. They moved to Garðar in 1927.