Guðríður Guðmundsdóttir

ID: 7280
Date of birth : 1834
Date of death : 1926

Guðríður Guðmundsdóttir was born on May 31, 1834 in Skagafjarðarsýsla. She died in N. Dakota on March 14, 1926.

Spouse: 1858 Guðmundur Skúlason b. December 3, 1836 in Skagafjarðarsýsla, d. in Grand Forks, N. Dakota on August 6, 1914.

Children: 1. Guðríður b. 1857, died at 11 days old 2. Ingiríður b. July 21, 1859, d. May 11, 1962 in Winnipeg 3. Sigrún b. March 5, 1861, d. May 9, 1962 4. Guðríður b. May 1, 1863 5. Sigþrúður b. 1864, d. of smallpox in New Iceland in 1876 6. Barði b. 1865, d. 1866 7. Aldís b. 1867, d. 1868 8. Skúli b. 1869, d. of smallpox in New Iceland in 1876 9. Bárði b. January 19, 1871 10. Guðmundur b. 1872, d. of smallpox in New Iceland in 1876 11. Aldís b. 1874, d. in New Iceland 12. Skúli b. in Manitoba on October 20, 1877, d. Poplar, Montana on April 1, 1945. 13. Ólafur b. in N. Dakota, 1880, died young.

They came west by sea to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1876 and took land the same year in the Fljóts settlement in New Iceland. They moved to the Víkur settlement in N. Dakota about 1879 where they lived after that.