ID: 14896
Date of birth : 1873
Place of birth : S. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1957
Marteinn Guðmundsson was born in Suður-Múlasýsla in 1873. Died in Baldur, Manitoba in 1957. Surname Martin in Canada.
Spouse: 1898 Kristbjörg Jóhannesdóttir b. 1868 in Suður-Múlasýsla, d. 1961 in Manitoba.
They has no children but raised a fosterdaughter, Florence Sigurlín.
Marteinn emigrated with his parents to New Iceland in 1878. He grew up in the Icelandic River Settlement and that is where he and Kristbjörg lived to begin with. In 1903 they moved to the Argyle Settylement where the lived for a few years. Moved to Winnipeg from where they moved a year later to Baldur, Manitoba and lived there for the rest of their lives. þa