ID: 9878
Date of birth : 1907
Þórir Jónsson was born in S. Þingeyjarsýsla on November 17, 1907. He took the last name Malmquist in the west.
Unmarried and childless.
He emigrated west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1914 with his grandmother, Halldóra Jónsdóttir, and foster father, Karl Malmquist.
After two years in Manitoba, they moved to Keewatin, Ontario where his half-sister, Matthildur Guðmundsdóttir, and her husband, Karl Malmquist, raised him. He worked at the Lake of the Woods Milling Co. bakery.