ID: 11201
Date of birth : 1862
Place of birth : Strandasýsla
Jón Einarsson was born on February 18, 1862 in Strandasýsla.
Spouse: 1) January 16, 1889 Guðrún Jakobsdóttir b. in Húnavatnssýsla in 1863, d. October 24, 1894. 2) 1897 Kristjana Sigríður Helgadóttir b. 1867 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla
Children: With Guðrún: 1. Kristín 2. Herdís Margrét b. August 8, 1891. With Kristjana: 1. Jóhann Benedikt 2. Finnur Hafsteinn 3. Helga Guðbjörg 4. Emilía Guðrún 5. Karl Leó.
Jón came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1888. There he worked mainly on building houses, but in 1907 he moved to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan and took land in the Foam Lake community.