Björg Jónsdóttir

ID: 7454
Date of birth : 1845
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1924

Björg Jónsdóttir was born on June 6, 1845 in Skagafjarðarsýsla. She died in Canada in 1924.

Spouse: Jón Jónsson b. February 14, 1831 in Skagafjarðarsýsla, d. in Saskatchewan on March 21, 1905. He took the last name Norman in the west.

Children: 1. Jón b. 1866 2. Þórarinn b. 1867 3. Sigurjón b. 1869 4. Lilja b. 1872 5. Steinunn b. 1874 6. Anna b. 1876 7. Jóhann Ólafur b. 1877 8. Jakob b. 1883.

Jón and Björg came west with their youngest child Jakob in 1898. They went directly to the Þingvalla Settlement in Saskatchewan where their son Þórarinn had settled a year earlier.  Jón took land there but did not live long.