ID: 4630
Date of birth : 1848
Place of birth : Ísafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1921
Búi Jónsson from Skaga in Dýrafjörð. He was born in 1848 in Ísafjarðarsýsla and died in Winnipegosis on January 27, 1921.
Spouse: Þorlaug Guðbrandsdóttir b. in Ísafjarðarsýsla in 1847, d. May 31, 1922.
Children: 1: Jónína b. January 1, 1871 2. Jón b. February 10, 1872, 3. Ingvar Bjarni b. 1872 or 1873 4. Guðrún b. 1875 5. Ólöf b. 1877 6. Ólafía Guðrún b. 1879 7. Þorlaug b. 1886. (died young). All were born in Iceland. Búi and Þorlaug had 13 children and of them, six reached adulthood.
They came west in 1887. They lived the first years in New Iceland. They made their way to Selkirk but in the fall of 1897, Búi moved to Winnipegosis while Þorlaug came a year later with the children.