ID: 2871
Date of birth : 1870
Place of birth : Vestmannaeyjar
Date of death : 1914
Jóhanna Margrét Jesdóttir was born in the Westmann Islands (Vestmannaeyjar) on September 25, 1870. She is listed as Jensdóttir in Vesturfaraskrá.
Her parents were Halldóra Samúelsdóttir and Jes Nicolaj Thomsen, b. in Barðastrandasýsla.
Halldóra left the Westman Islands late in the year 1870 with her newborn Jóhanna. Their route was probably to Britain or Denmark and then west across the ocean to Spanish Fork, Utah, where they arrived in 1871.