ID: 12206
Date of birth : 1824
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1887
Lilja Vigfúsdóttir was born in N. Múlasýsla on April 27, 1824. She died in N. Dakota on November 13, 1887.
Spouse: Einar Bessason born in N. Múlasýsla in 1825, d. in N. Dakota May 16, 1903.
Children: 1. Anna Kristín b. 1851 2. Vigfús (Sigús??) b. 1855. Both died in Iceland.
They came west to Winnipeg in 1878 and lived in Manitoba until 1883 when they took land in the Garðar Settlement. Western sources say that a third child, and unnamed daughter, had come with them and married Helgi Helgason in N. Dakota in 1890.