Jónína Jónsdóttir was born on November 29, 1872 in Mýrasýsla.
Spouse: June 30, 1903 Pétur Hjálmsson b. May 15, 1863 in Þverárhlíð in Mýrasýsla. He died on January 30, 1950 in Innisfail, Alberta. He was known as Rev. Petur Hjalmsson in the west.
Childless.
Pétur was the son of Hjálmur Pétursson, member of the Allthing, and Helga Árnadóttir. He graduated from Reykjavík High School in 1895 and came west across the ocean with Jónína in 1899. They were in Winnipeg the first year, she went to Duluth in Minnesota where she lived until the end of 1902, then returned to Winnipeg. They moved to Chicago in January 1903, where Pétur went to graduate school, and was ordained there as a pastor on June 21, 1903. In the following years, Pétur served congregations in Canada, settling in Markerville, Alberta, where he served and farmed. For the last 18 years of his life, he was blind. Jónína worked as a seamstress and in Alberta she was the secretary of Vonarinn, the Icelandic women’s club in the area.