ID: 3448
Date of birth : 1859
Date of death : 1951
Halldóra Bjarnadóttir was born on July 14, 1859 in Mýrasýsla. She died in New Iceland on January 12, 1951.
Spouse: December 3, 1887 Bjarni Jakobsson b. December 26, 1859 in Mýrasýsla, d. in New Iceland on June 28, 1935.
Children: 1. Bjarni Ágúst b. 1891, d. February 5, 1922 2. Ögmundur Kristinn, died young 3. Jakob 4. Unsteinn Sigmundur 5. Guðlaugur b. December 25, 1897 6. Rannveig.
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1887 and took land in the Geysir settlement, naming their farm Bjarnastað. They lived there for many years, but in their later years moved to their daughter Rannveig and her husband, Magnús Ólafsson, in the same settlement. Unsteinn Sigmundur took over his parents’ farm.