Jón Halldórsson

ID: 6166
Date of birth : 1875
Place of birth : Húnavatnssýsla
Date of death : 1943

Jón Halldórsson: Born April 30, 1875 in Húnavatnssýsla. He died in Winnipeg on March 7, 1943.

Spouse: March 2, 1902 Anna Sigurðardóttir born in 1880 in S. Múlasýsla, d. in Winnipeg on September 25, 1962.

Children: 1. María Violet b. December 30, 1903 2. Ingibjörg b. June 7, 1905 3. Kristjón b. April 13, 1907 4. Sigríður b. March 23, 1909 5. Halldór Þorbergur b. November 23, 1912 6. Guðfinna b. January 24, 1915 7. Sigurbjörg Rose b. May 1, 1918.

Jón emigrated to Winnipeg, Manitoba with Jónas Jónsson and his family in 1883 and joined his parents, Halldór Jónsson and Ingibjarg Jónatansdóttir, in the Fljóts Settlement. Anna emigrated west in the same year with her parents, Sigurður Björnsson and Guðfinna Oddsdóttir, who settled at Ekru in the Hnausa Settlement. Jón bought a house in Lundi (later Riverton) and lived there until 1905 when he sold it and bought land in the Víðir-Sandy Hills Settlement. He sold that in 1919 and moved to Riverton, where he lived until 1941 before moving to Winnipeg.