When Níels Jónsson Hjaltalín was born in 1730, in Kjósarsýsla, Capital Region, Iceland, his father, Jon Hjaltalin Oddsson, was 43 and his mother, Metta Maria Hansdatter, was 46. He married Gudrun Eiriksdottir in 1757, in Gullbringusýsla, Southern Peninsula, Iceland. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He died in 1786, at the age of 56.
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Kjósarsýsla merged with Gullbringusýsla in 1754 to form the new county of Gullbringu- og Kjósarsýsla.
Volcanic eruptions in occur ruining the land which led to the starvation of animals and approx 25% of the Icelandic people.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Nils, Lars, Lennart, Thor, Alf, Anders, Arni, Erik, Jorgen, Mats, Olafur, Per.
Swedish: patronymic from the personal name Jon, Scandinavian form of John . Compare Jonson 2.
English: variant of Johnson , although this form of the English name may have died out in Britain.
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