Sigurbjörg Friðbjarnardóttir

ID: 8576
Date of birth : 1883

Sigurbjörg Friðbjarnardóttir was born in Akureyri in Eyjafjarðarsýsla on September 2, 1883.

Spouse: November 13, 1926 Hermann Björnsson b. in the Argyle settlement in Manitoba on May 8, 1892, d. in Blaine, Washington on November 18, 1958.

Sigurbjörg came west in 1905 and settled in Winnipeg. There she married Hermann and they lived in the city until 1930. The path then led them to Chicago where they lived until 1953. From there they moved to Blaine, Washington. Hermann was the son of Björn Björnsson and Guðný Vilhelmína Einarsdóttir who came west in 1883 and took land in the Argyle settlement in Manitoba which they named Grashóll. Hermann was an employee in factories that worked on the production of industrial products.