Sigurður Indriðason

ID: 8547
Date of birth : 1863
Date of death : 1949

Sigurður Indriðason was born in Húnavatnssýsla on July 14, 1863. He died in Selkirk, Manitoba on November 25, 1949.

Maki: 1) 1902 Þuríður Sigfúsdóttir b. in N. Múlasýsla, 1877, d. in Manitoba on April 2, 1904. 2) August 1, 1911 Guðrún Sigríður Pálsdóttir b. 1887, d. 1976

Children: With Þuríður: 1. Súsanna b. 1903 2. Indriði Jón b. September 1, 1903. With Guðrún: 1. Wilhelm b. September 21, 1914 2. Sigríður Pálína b. September 11, 1913 3. Lárus Þorgrímur b. October 2, 1919 4. Raymond Sigurjón b. August 31, 1922.

Sigurður moved to the United States at a young age and worked as a fisherman out of Boston for 10 years. He then returned to Iceland. In 1904, Sigurður and Þuríður moved to Manitoba in 1904 and settled in Selkirk. There, Sigurður worked in a mental asylum. Guðrún’s parents, Páll Jónsson and Sigríður Lárusdóttir, came to the West in 1883 and lived in the Geysir settlement.