Oktavía Jónsdóttir

ID: 10783
Date of birth : 1856
Date of death : 1900

Oktavía Jónsdóttir was born in N.Þingeyjarsýsla on October 11, 1856. She died in Manitoba on April 2, 1900.

Spouse: Sigurbjörn Sigurðsson b. March 7, 1841 in N. Þingeyjarsýsla, d. at Betel in Gimli in 1923.

Children: 1. Jóel b. 1887  2. Matthías b. 1892 3. Guðlaug b. 1893 4. Árni b. June 4, 1889.

They came west to Canada in 1894 with their three children. Árni was taken in as a foster child by Sigvaldur Baldvinsson and Guðrún Jónsdóttir and came to the West with them in 1902.