Jakob Jónatansson

ID: 8394
Date of birth : 1860
Place of birth : Húnavatnssýsla
Date of death : 1942

Jakob Jónatansson was born on October 9, 1860 in Húnavatnssýsla. He died at Point Roberts, Washington in 1942. He took the name Jacob Jackson in the west.

Spouse: Vilborg Snorradóttir b. in Gullbringusýsla in 1853, d. at Point Roberts in 1923.

Children: Vilborg earlier had: 1. Guðrún Emilía b. 1874 2. Snorrína Margrét b. 1875 3. Guðný Aðalbjörg b. 1878 4. Ingólfur b. 1879. They were the children of Aðalbjörn Jóakimsson, Vilborg’s first husband.

They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1887 and settled in N. Dakota. They moved west to the Pacific, first living in Victoria, British Columbia then moving to Point Roberts, Washington.