ID: 8170
Date of birth : 1833
Place of birth : Eyjafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1908
Ásta Þóra Jónasdóttir was born in 1833 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla. She died in 1908 in Manitoba.
Spouse: Kristján Kristjánsson b. in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1843. He took the last name Skagfjörð in the west.
Children: 1. Jón b. 1866 2. Þóra b. 1868. Both children died of smallpox in New Iceland in 1877. They took in two foster sons in N. Dakota; one named Jón and the other Aðalsteinn. Both took the last name Skagfjörð.
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1876 and settled in New Iceland. They moved in the spring of 1879 to land west of the town of Cavalier, N. Dakota. They moved again in 1902 and settled in Álftárdals Settlement.