ID: 18901
Date of birth : 1834
Place of birth : Árnessýsla
Friðleifur Jónsson was born in Árnessýsla in 1834.
Spouse: Þorbjörg Snæbjörnsdóttir b. 1835 in Árnessýsla.
Children: 1. Jón b. 1866 2. Halldór b. 1870 3. Ingibjörg b. 1875 4. Friðbjörg b. 1882.
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in the last decade of the 19th century. They took land in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan and lived for a few years in the Foam Lake Settlement. They sold their land and moved away, probably west to the Pacific coast which is exactly what their sons Jón and Halldór did.