Jón Matthíasson fæddist í Barðastrandasýslu árið 1826. Maki: Helga Magnúsdóttir f. 1823 í Barðastrandasýslu. Börn: Með fyrri konu 1. Snæbjörn f. 1851 2. Guðrún f. 1852 3. Margrét f. 1854 Með Helgu Magnúsdóttur 1. Ástráður f. 1866 2. Sveinn f. 1867. Jón flutti vestur til Winnipeg í Manitoba árið 1888. Hann nam land í Lundarbyggð og bjó þar alla tíð.

      Sveinn Jónsson fæddist í Barðastrandarsýslu árið 1871. Maki: Kristín Jónsdóttir f. árið 1874 í Húnavatnssýslu, d. Saskatoon árið 1922. Líndal vestra. Börn: upplýsingar vantar Sveinn fór vestur til Winnipeg í Manitoba með foreldrum sínum, Jóni Matthíassyni og Helgu Magnúsdóttur árið 1888. Þau settust að í Lundarbyggð og þar nam Sveinn land en seldi svo og flutti vestur til …

Sigurður Sigurðsson was born in Barðastrandarsýsla in 1869. Spouse: Sigríður Sigfúsdóttir b. in S. Múlasýsla in 1873. Children: 1. Sigurður Sigfús 2. Ólöf 3. Helga 4. Oscar 5. Skúli 6. Albert. Sigurður and his mother, Helga Jónsdóttir, came west across the sea to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1888. Sigríður had moved there a year earlier with her parents, Sigfús Sveinsson and …

Kristín Níelsdóttir was born on May 2, 1879 in Dalasýsla. She died in California on May 30, 1962. Spouse: She married twice: 1) unknown man of Norwegian descent 2) Francis Love, an American. Childless. She came west from Flatey in Breiðafjörður.  She was first in Canada but then moved west to the Pacific and settled in Washington. Life’s road then …

Sigfríður Sigurðardóttir was born in Dalasýsla on December 12, 1850. Unmarried. Child: Guðrún Aðalsteinsdóttir b. July 7, 1879. They came west in 1898 with Jón Jónsson, a farmer in Rauðseyjar, and his wife Anna Brynjólfsdóttir. They took land in the Swan Lake Settlement (Álftavatnsbyggð) in Manitoba, and it is probable that the mother and daughter went there with them.

Helga Margrét Jónsdóttir was born in Barðastrandarsýsla on February 10, 1844. She died on October 7, 1930 in the Lundar Settlement. Unmarried. Child: Sigurður Sigurðsson b. December 1, 1869, d. February 9, 1966. Helga came west with Sigurður in 1888, together with Jón Matthíasson in Hergilsey in Barðastrandarsýsla, his wife and son. Helga worked first as a maid in their …