Áslaug Jónsdóttir was born in S. Þingeyjarsýsla on September 3, 1883. She died in Glen Lake, British Columbia in 1978.
Spouse: 1906 Þorsteinn Jónsson b. April 18, 1866 in S. Þingeyjarsýsla, d. September 26, 1943. He had the name Þorsteinn Gauti Jónsson in the west.
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. Áslaug moved west to the Pacific after Þorsteinn’s death.
This group photo was taken on October 8, 1914 in Steingrímur Jónsson’s garden near Wynyard. Back row: Nanna Jónsdóttir, Helgi Jónsson, Steingrímur Jónsson, Sesselja Jónsdóttir (Steingrímur’s wife), Haraldur Jónsson, and Hermann Jónsson holding his daughter Hallfríður. Middle row: Þorsteinn Gauti with his son Jón, Áslaug Jónsdóttir holding son Haraldur, Jón Jónsson from Mýri holding Ester the daughter of Þorsteinn and Áslaug, Guðný Hallgrímsdóttir (Steingrímur’s mother and Jón’s mother in law), Guðný Jónsdóttir, Indriði Skordal (they are holding their children Björn Jón and Haraldur Guðmundur), Guðrún Snorradóttir (Hermann Jónsson’s wife) with their son Hermann. Front row: Kristjana Þorsteinsdóttir, Guðný, Guðrún (daughters of Steingrímur and Sesselja), Helga (Guðnýj Jónsdóttir’s daughter), and lastly Hulda Indriðadóttir. Photo owned by the descendants of Kristjana Jónsdóttir from Mýri.