ID: 9356
Date of birth : 1872
Place of birth : Eyjafjarðarsýsla
Steingrímur Jónsson was born in Eyjafjarðarsýsla in 1872.
Spouse: March 19, 1901 Sesselja Jónsdóttir b. in Rangárvallasýsla in 1874
Children: 1. Guðný 2. Guðrún
Steingrímur came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba with his parents in 1889. They settled in the Þingvalla Settlement west of Manitoba and lived there six years. Steingrímur bought land near Winnipeg, Manitoba. In the spring of 1904, Steingrímur looked west and took land in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan and moved there in 1905. Sesselja was 12 years old in 1886 when she came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba with Helgi Árnason and his wife Guðrún Jónsdóttir, her mother’s sister.