ID: 8925
Date of birth : 1860
Place of birth : Eyjafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1930
Eggert Jónsson was born in 1860 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla. He took the last name Oliver in the west. He died in Manitoba in 1930.
Spouse: Vilborg Lovísa Pálsdóttir b. in 1869 in S. Múlasýsla
Children: 1) Marteinn 2) Kristján 3) Björn, died 1945 4) Ólöf 5) Eggert 6) Guðný 7) Lucy 8) Jón 9) Pearl
Eggert came west in 1879 with his parents and lived at Brú in the Argyle Settlement for the first year. Vilborg came west with her parents in 1876. They took land in the Argyle Settlement.