ID: 9551
Date of birth : 1848
Place of birth : S. Þingeyjarsýsla
Date of death : 1907
Jón Jónsson was born in S. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1848. He died in Markerville, Alberta in 1907.
Spouse: 1872 Helga Davíðsdóttir b. 1851 in N. Þingeyjarsýsla, d. 1895.
Children: 1. Svava b. 1871 2. Jón b. 1873 3. Regína 4. Lára Sigurlína 5. Rannveig Jósefína 6. Kristbjörg Málfríður.
They emigrated west to Kinmount, Ontario in 1874. They moved on to Winnipeg, Manitoba and lived for a time in New Iceland. From there, they moved to the Icelandic community in N. Dakota and bought land north of the Tongue River. They moved west from there to Markerville, Alberta in 1889.