ID: 8937
Date of birth : 1859
Place of birth : Eyjafjarðarsýsla
Kristján Jónsson Photo Almanak 1912
Kristján Jónsson was born in Eyjafjarðarsýsla in 1859.
Spouse: 1880 Guðfinna Sveinsdóttir b. in S. Múlasýsla in 1863.
Children: 1. Friðrik Kristján 2. Aurora. They had 15 children, 6 reached adulthood.
Kristján came west to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1873. He moved to N. Dakota before 1880. Guðfinna came west to N. Dakota in 1878 with her parents, Sveinn Árnason and Ingibjörg Björnsdóttir. In 1899, they moved west to Alberta and settled in an Icelandic community.