Guðrún Jónsdóttir was born in 1844 in S. Múlasýsla. She died in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1912.
Spouse: Þorleifur Jóakimsson b. September 13, 1847 in N. Múlasýsla, d. June 21, 1923 in Manitoba. He took the last name Jackson in the west.
Children: 1. Anna Sigríður 2. Ragnhildur 3. Þórstína Sigríður b. July 27, 1891. Anna and Ragnheiður both died as young children from scarlet fever.
Guðrún Jónsdóttir was a midwife and came west in 1881 and moved to N. Dakota. She had completed her studies with Fritz Zeuthen, the district physician in Eskifjörður in midwifery in 1879. This knowledge would prove useful to many western settlers. Þorleifur came west to New Iceland in 1876, but moved to N. Dakota in the summer of 1877. He took land in the Akra Settlement in 1881 and left in 1903 when he took land west of Leslie in the Lakes Settlement in Saskatchewan. In his grief, he sold his land and animals, and moved to Manitoba in 1912, where he lived in either Winnipeg or Selkirk.