Páll Jónsson

ID: 20414
Date of birth : 1897

Páll Jónsson Photo: VÍÆ I

 Páll Jónsson was born in Strandasýsla on October 11, 1897. He took the last name Johnson in the west.

Spouse: April 25, 1931 Guðrún Jóhannsdóttir b. July 18, 1895, d. 1984.

Children: 1. Jóhann Páll Oswald b. January 25, 1932 2. Marlene Ólöf Guðrún b. September 11, 1934.

Páll stayed in Iceland until 1927, graduated from the Icelandic School of Commerce in 1919 and became a merchant in Reykjavík. He came to Winnipeg in 1927 and lived there thereafter. He was a house painter in the city.  Guðrún’s parents were Jóhann Magnússon and Ólöf Össurardóttir, who came west in 1911.