Þórir Jónsson was born in S. Þingeyjarsýsla on November 17, 1907. He took the last name Malmquist in the west. Unmarried and childless. He emigrated west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1914 with his grandmother, Halldóra Jónsdóttir, and foster father, Karl Malmquist. After two years in Manitoba, they moved to Keewatin, Ontario where his half-sister, Matthildur Guðmundsdóttir, and her husband, Karl …

Skafti Arason was born at Hamri in Laxárdal in S. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1850. He died in 1903. Spouse: 1877 Anna Guðrún Jóhannsdóttir  born in 1849 in S. Þingeyjarsýsla. Children: 1) Tryggvi b. April 27, 1878 2) Guðrún 3) Óli 4) Ágúst 5) Guðný 6) Hermann d. 1920 in Rochester, Minnesota Skafti came west in 1874 and stayed in Kinmount for …

Hans Jónsson was born on September 16, 1870 in S. Þingeyjarsýsla. He died in Glenboro, Manitoba in 1949. Unmarried and childless. Hans emigrated to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1888 and from there to the Argyle Settlement where he bought land. In 1926, he built a house in Glenboro and lived there or at his farm.