Þorsteinn Jónsson Photo owned by the descendants of Kristjana Jónsdóttir from Mýri.
Áslaug Jónsdóttir Photo owned by the descendants of Kristjana Jónsdóttir from Mýri.
Þorsteinn Jónsson was born in 1865 in S. Þingeyjarsýsla. He was known as Þorsteinn Gauti Jónsson in the west.
Spouse: 1906 Áslaug Jónsdóttir b. in S. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1883, d. 1978.
Children: 1. Kristjana b. 1906 2. Jórunn b. 1908 3. Ester b. 1910 4. Jón b. 1912 5. Haraldur b. 1915 6. Kristbjörg Margrét b. 1915 7. Málmfríður Nanna b. 1917 8. Kristrún Valgerður b. 1919 9. Edna b. 1921 10. Erla b. 1925.
Þorsteinn came west from Gautland to Canada in 1887 while Áslaug arrived in 1903 with her father, Jón Jónsson from Mýri. Þorsteinn lived in southern Manitoba near the Rat River in 1906 and was for some time in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) but they moved from there to Winnipeg. In 1908 they lived in Pembina, N. Dakota, but in 1914 they moved west to the Lakes Settlement and Þorsteinn bought land west of Wynyard.