Henrietta Lovísa Níelsdóttir was born in 1822 at Húsavík in S. Þingeyjarsýsla. She died on July 26, 1901 in Selkirk, Manitoba.
Spouse: Þorlákur Gunnar Jónsson b. August 16, 1824 at Berufjörð in S. Múlasýsla, d. in Wisconsin on January 21, 1916. He took the last name Thorlakson in the west.
Children: 1. Haraldur b. 1847 2. Páll b. 1851, d. March 1, 1882 3. Jón b. 1853 4. Jakobína b. 1854 5. Rannveig b. 1856 6. Níels b. 1858 7. Björn b. 1860 8. Valgerður b. 1863.
They came west to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1873 with their five youngest children. Haraldur and Páll had come west the year before. They lived in the city for two years, but in the fall of 1875 they moved to the Ljósavatn County in Shawano, Wisconsin. They lived there until 1879, but then moved west to N. Dakota and settled in Mountain. Shortly before the turn of the century, they moved to Detroit, where they remained until 1901, when they moved to Selkirk, Manitoba.