Jón Jónsson was born in N. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1868. Spouse: Dóróthea Sigurðardóttir b. in N. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1870 Children: 1. Jón b. 1889 2. Kristján 3. Þorsteinn They came west in 1890 and took land in the Hóla Settlement. They moved south from there shortly before 1900 to Grand Forks, N. Dakota. Geirlaug Gunnarsdóttir, Jón’s mother, travelled with them and lived …

Jónas Símonarson was born at Gönguskörðum in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1846. Spouse: Jakobína Hallgrímsdóttir b. in S. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1855 Children: 1. Árelíus 2. Ingibaldur 3. Fjóla. Jakobína had a son, Gestur Valdimarsson, with her first husband. Gestur married Hólmfríður Jónsdóttir and lived in Glenboro. Jónas had a daughter, Guðrún, with his first wife. She lived in Winnipeg. Jónas came to the …

Jón Magnús Ólafsson: Fæddur á Rafnsstöðum í Eyjafjarðarsýslu 25. júní, 1861. Maki: Laufey Hrólfsdóttir f. fædd í Fnjóskadal í Eyjafjarðarsýslu árið 1867. Dáin 1916 Börn: 1. Reimar f. 1892 2. Steingrímur f. 1897 3. Inga Guðrún f. 1900 Fluttu vestur árið 1900 og fóru fyrst til Glenboro.  Jón vann við járnbraut fyrstu árin en keypti svo land í Hólabyggð og …

Jón Jónsson was born at Saurum, likely in 1851 in Húnavatnssýsla. He was called Mayland in the west. Unmarried and childless. He came west in 1887 and spent the first year in the Argyle Settlement. He bought land in the Hóla Settlement and moved there in 1902. He sold his land in 1910 and moved to Glenboro. From there he moved …

Árni Jón Jónsson: Fæddur í Vopnafirði í N.Múlasýslu árið 1875. Wogen vestra Maki: Guðlaug Jónsdóttir f. í Argylebyggð. Árni kom vestur með móður sinni árið 1893 og bjó hjá foreldrum sínum í Hólabyggð fyrstu árin. Guðlaug var fædd í Argylebyggð, dóttir Jóns Helgasonar bónda þar. Þau hjón bjuggu ekki lengi í Hólabyggð, fluttu til Selkirk..

Friðfinnur Jónsson was born in Þistilfjörður in N. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1864. He died in 1927. Spouse: 1890 Jakobína Einarsdóttir b. 1875 in N. Þingeyjarsýsla. They divorced after a few years. Children: With Sigurlaug Einarsdóttir, b. in Þistilfjörður in N. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1865: 1. Ágúst. Friðfinnur came west alone shortly after 1880. He lived for some years in the Argyle settlement, but …

Ingólfur Árnason was born in 1863 in Hrafnagilshreppur in Eyjafjarðarsýsla. Spouse: María Frímannsdóttir b. 1872 in N. Múlasýsla. Children: 1. Jean Ágústa Halldóra 2. Leó 3. Gústaf Adolf 4. Leona Diana 5. Inga Rakel Sigríður 6. Elma Ingibjörg 7. Róma Lára Aðalheiður 8. Kári Lorenzo Ingólfur came west in 1893 and spent the first winter in Selkirk. He moved to Glenboro …

Kristján Sveinsson: Fæddur í Grunnavatnsbyggð. Dáinn 19. mars, 1958 í Manitoba. Maki: Ólína Friðrika Tryggvadóttir f. í N. Dakota 1883, d. 16. mars, 1937. Kristján tók við landi föður síns, Sveins Sveinssonar í Hólabyggð og var bóndi þar.

Sigríður Bjarnadóttir was born at Vík in Sæmundarhlíð in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1851. Spouse: Þorsteinn Ásgrímsson, drowned in Lake Winnipeg in 1890. Children: Guðmundur Jónsson b. 1874. Sigríður came west with her young son in 1888. They first lived in New Iceland where she married Þorsteinn. After his death she lived briefly in N. Dakota, but then landed on the north …

Andrés Daníelsson was born at Kárastaðir at Skagastrand in  Húnavatnssýsla in 1879. He is registered as Andrew Danielson in the west. Spouse: August 22, 1905 Guðbjörg Vilhelmína Ingimundardóttir b. in Húnavatnssýsla on August 24, 1870. Childless. They adopted two children 1. Daniel Ingimundur 2. Svava Stefanía. He came west 1888 and spent some years with his uncle Árni Andrésson (Anderson) …