Jónína Jóelsdóttir

ID: 9989
Date of birth : 1896
Place of birth : S. Þingeyjarsýsla
Date of death : 1968

Jónína Kristjana Jóelsdóttir was born in S. Þingeyjarsýsla on September 4, 1896. She died in Saskatchewan on July 25, 1968.

Spouse: March 12, 1918 Jón Ásgrímur Jóhannsson b. in the Argyle Settlement in Manitoba in 1885, d. in Saskatchewan on March 7, 1935. He had the last name Reykdal in the west.

Children: 1. Jóhann Egill b. July 16, 1918 2. Björn b. August 13, 1919 3. Júlíus Gísli b. May 13, 1924 4. Guðrún Kristbjörg b. March 7, 1928 5. Jakobína Kristín b. March 11, 1929

Jón grew up in the town of Argyle but moved in 1912, along with his father, to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan and bought the land of Hermann Ísfeld in the Kandahar/Dafoe area. He then took more land in the same settlement. Jónína came west with her parents in 1900 and lived in the Argyle Settlement close to ten years. Life’s road then led them to Silver Bay in the Siglunes Settlement to the northwest of Lake Manitoba.