Gísli Jónsson

ID: 7314
Single parent
Date of birth : 1820
Place of birth : Dalasýsla
Date of death : 1894

Gísli Jónsson Photo SÍND

Gísli Jónsson was born in Dalasýsla on April 8, 1820. He died in the Pembina Settlement on December 12, 1894.

Spouse: Kristín Jóhannesdóttir b. 1831, died before 1870.

Children: 1. Guðbrandur b. March 8, 1854 2. Guðmundur b. September 30, 1862. Other children did not come west as far as known.

Gísli and Guðbrandur came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1876 and settled in New Iceland.  They moved south from there to the Pembina Settlemet in N. Dakota and Gísli lived there the rest of his life.