ID: 12713
Date of birth : 1859
Place of birth : S. Þingeyjarsýsla
Date of death : 1943
Bergþór Jónsson, Vilhelmína Eyjólfsdóttir with Jón Pétur, their grandson. Photo: WtW
Bergþór Jónsson was born in 1859 in S. Þingeyjarsýsla. He died in Manitoba in 1943.
Spouse: 1882 Vilhelmína Eyjólfsdóttir b. 1855 in N. Múlasýsla, d. 1941.
Children 1. Björg Stefanía b. 1884 2. Jón Pétur b. March 23, 1883 3. Albert b. 1888, died in World War I
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1889 and lived there two years. They moved north to the Lundar Settlement and took land. They lived a good life there for 24 years but then they sold out and moved west to Last Mountain, Saskatchewan where their daughter lived with her family. They moved back a few years later and settled in Lundar. Their son, Jón Pétur, lived there with his family.