Meet my Grandparents
Stoneson Branch

Revised: March 7, 2011

Þorsteinn Þórsteinsson
Birth: Apr 1860 in Hraunkoy, Borgarfjordur, Iceland

Emigration: 04 Sep 1874 in NO. 109, Lanourer, Age 21, Pg 290, S.S. Saint Patrick,
Akureyri, Iceland

Death: 02 Jan 1935 in British Columbia, Canada

Also Known As: Thurston Stoneson
Shared Facts: Ingibjörg Einarsdóttir
Marriage: 1887 in Winnipeg, Canada

Children: Joe Stoneson
Gudrun Runa Thorsteinsson
Ellis Leo Stoneson
Henry Stoneson
Stephania Ingibjorg Maria Emma Stoneson
Baldwin Stoneson
Johann Thordur Stoneson

Notes:
Person Notes: Frá Stafholti í Stafholtstungum í Mýrasýslu. Fór til Vesturheims 1887 með
konu sinni. Þau settust að í Blaine.
Sources: - person: Vesturfaraskrá/148
Frá Stafholti í Stafholtstungum í Mýrasýslu. Fór til Vesturheims 1887 með
konu sinni. Þau settust að í Blaine.
aka - Thurston Stoneson refe from Newsclips of Henry's passing

See Stoneson Clan page here.

Translated roughly by Vern Austman in Feb 2011.

Th/Th/Th Almanac 1925.
Thorstein Thorsteinsson, called himself Stoneson, hailed from Stafholt in Stafholtstungum in Myrasysla, was born 11 April 1860. His father was Thorsteinn Thordarson from Reykjum in Thverarhlid, and mother was Johanna Einarsdottir from Taudanesi in the same county. Thorstein Stoneson was second cousin of sera Markus Gislason who was a minister in Audkulu in Thingi. Thorstein’s wife was Ingibjorg Einarsdottir Skeggjasonar from Uppsolum in Nordurardal. Her mother was Leopoldina Nielsdottir, a half sister of Lovisa, mother of sera Steingrims Thorlaksson and siblings. Ingibjorg grew up with her relation sera Stefan Thorvardsson in Stafholt. There she married her man, Thorstein Stoneson, and the same year, 1887, left for Canada (America).
They were 3 years in Winnipeg and then went to Victoria where they lived until 1897 when they went to the “spit of land”, tangann, (Point Roberts). Thorstein obtained 40 acres of land and built a house, but then did not occupy it on account of the sickness of his wife.
(This is doubtful translation, or they did not occupy very long; since I have a photo of Ingibjorg, looking frail, and Gudrun/Rooney in front of a house after 1897, likely at Point Roberts.)

He then sold the 40 acres and moved the house to one acre that he kept from the 40. Then he got 20 acres of lowland that was free of trees in the western part of the settlement, bought some cows and set up a milk business for the fisher neighbors. He also setup a lumber operation for income for the care of his frail wife. This enterprise he carried on for 7 years. Then he sold the milk and other enterprise and left for good to reside in Blaine. (Part of this time may have been in Crescent Beach).

Their children were Stefania Ingibjorg Maria, who in 1914 married Andres Fjeldsted Oddstad (and are living in Vancouver in 1925); Ellis Leo who married Kristbjorg Sigurdardottir Thordarsonar; Henry not married in 1925; and Gudrun Sigridur who in 1914 married Kjartan Kristofersson and are living in Argyle Manitoba (in 1925).

See image file of Icelandic.

Roy welcomes any data on the Stonesons.

Stoney Stoneson
son of
Einar Skeggjason, b. 22 Aug 1820
and Leopoldína Níelsdóttir, b. 28 Nov 1822
Great Grandfather of Roy, Karl, Elena and many cousins.

Blain Washington
Stoneson House

Close up of above photo
The girl should be Gudrun Christopherson, doubful

Ingiborg (Ingibjörg Einarsdóttir)
and Stone Stoneson (Þorsteinn Þorsteinsson)
Possibly Joe Stoneson (Child)
Cross-verification with
Nelson Gerrard

For more photos see Stoneson Clan page