{geni:about_me} Jon was born in 1788 at the farm Dyrkollbotn in the present Lindås kommune. He was the fifth of nine children. He married Kari 17th of April 1813 in the church of Manger where Kari lived. They took over 2/3 of thefarm of Jon's parents in 1825. They got seven children.
After Kari died in 1832, Jon married again in 1834, then to Anna Rasmusdtr. She was a widow at the farm Romarheim. Jon died at Dyrkollbotn in 1868.