ID: 4613
Date of birth : 1864
Place of birth : Ísafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1942
Jóna Benediktsdóttir was born in Ísafjarðarsýsla on July 26, 1864. She died in Iceland on December 21, 1942.
Spouse: Gestur Björnsson b. in Dalasýsla on February 14, 1860, drowned in Lake Manitoba on June 30, 1894.
Children: 1. Benedikt 2. Halldóra 3. Björn 4. Gestur Oddfinnur.
The family came west in 1892 and moved to the Argyle Settlement. They did not live there long and moved north to Lake Manitoba. Gestur drowned there shortly after and Jóna moved back to Iceland. Benedikt and Björn remained in the west, Björn was taken in as a foster child, took the last name of his foster father, and was registered as Christiansson.