María Jónsdóttir

ID: 10327
Date of birth : 1836
Place of birth : S. Þingeyjarsýsla
Date of death : 1907

María Jónsdóttir was born in 1836 in S. Þingeyjarsýsla. She died on December 17, 1909 in Glenboro, Manitoba.

Spouse: Kristján Sigurðsson b. 1845 in S. Þingeyjarsýsla, d. in Manitoba in 1924.

Children: Halldóra Sigríður b. 1868, remained in Iceland. They took in Jónína Sigurveig Guðnadóttir as a foster.

Kristján and María came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1888 and went on from there to the Argyle Settlement. They were there for a number of years, but then moved to Glenboro just before the turn of the century.