Jóhanna Jónsdóttir

ID: 19017
Date of birth : 1851
Date of death : 1942

Jóhanna Jónsdóttir was born on October 28, 1851 in Hrunamannahreppur in Árnessýsla. She died on January 5, 1942 in Arborg, Manitoba.

Spouse: Sveinn Sveinsson b. in Árnessýsla on March 28, 1850. He died on July 26, 1932.

Children: 1. Sesselja Ögmunda b. June 9, 1877. She was the wife of Gunnar Oddsson 2. Kristinn Frímann  b. 1883. It is unknown if he came west.

Sveinn and Jóhanna lived at Breðamýrarholt in Flóa but moved to Reykjavík after Sesselja was born. They came west in 1900 and soon took land in the Framnes Settlement. They moved from there in 1913 to Árborg.