ID: 11868
Date of birth : 1860
Date of death : 1893
Margrét Jónsdóttir was born in Vopnafjörður in N. Múlasýsla in 1861. She died on the way west on August 6, 1893 in childbirth.
Spouse: Jón Jóhannesson b. at Kelduhverfi ub N. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1861. He took the last name Hrappsted in the west.
Children: 1. Ottó b. 1886 2. Einar Sigurður b. 1888.
Jón lived with his parents at Hrappsstaðir in Vopnafjörður. He identified himself with that place in the West. He came west in 1893 and first lived in Winnipeg and the Argyle settlement. He moved to the Hóla settlement and stayed there for a year but left in 1899 and took land in the Swan Valley settlement (Álftárdalsbyggð).