Flóvent Jónsson was born in Eyjafjarðarsýsla July 12, 1839. Died in New Iceland in 1930.
Spouse: April 10, 1872 Bergrós Jónsdóttir b. January 10, 1847 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla, d. January 4, 1928 in Blaine, Washington.
Children: 1. Jónína Steinunn b. 1872, d. in the small pox epidemic in New Iceland November 28, 1876 2. Twins stillborn in 1878 3. Soffía b. 1879, died young. Flóvent had two children prior to his marriage 1. Jón b. 1862 3. Lilja b. 1865. She did not emigrate.
Flóvent og Bergrós emigrated to Ontario, Canada in 1873 with their daughter Jónína and Jón, Flóvent’s son. They left with the first group for New Iceland in 1875 and suffered like so many other pioneers. They lost their daughter and had to abandon their homestead, Skriðuland, due to floods in Lake Winnipeg. After a brief spell in Selkirk they returned to Skriðuland where they lived the next eleven years. Jón son of Flóvent had passed away, husband and wife went separate ways, Flovent decided to return to Iceland. He travelled by train to Halifax, NS and on a Norwegian fishing boat he sailed for Gt. Britain from where he sailed to Iceland. He did not find in Iceland what he was looking for and returned to Canada and was back in New Iceland around 1900 where he lived the rest of his life.