Páll Björnsson

ID: 19284
Date of birth : 1884
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1953

In front: Donald, Fjóla, and Páll. Behind: Margrét and Cyril. Inset: Fjóla and Páll.  Photo: WtW

Páll Björnsson was born in eastern Borgarfjörður in N. Múlasýsla on January 28, 1884. He died in the Lundar Settlement in 1953. He took the name Paul Johnson in the west.

Spouse: Fjóla Magnúsdóttir b. 1901 in Lundar Settlement.

Children: 1. Margrét Guðrún b. 1927 2. Paul Edward b. 1929 3. Donald Kenneth b. 1935 4. Cyril Leon b. 1938.

Páll came west o Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1888 with his parents, Björn Jónsson and Guðrún Pálsdóttir, who took land in the Lundar Settlement. Páll grew up there and when old enough, he took land with his brother Jón and built a magnificent house there which they named Hofteig. Páll lived there for eleven years but moved from there to the village of Lundar, opened a stable, and later ran a transport company there. Fjóla was the daughter of Magnús Kristjánsson and Margrét Daníelsdóttir.