ID: 13420
Date of birth : 1858
Place of birth : N.Þingeyjarsýsla
Date of death : 1945
Ólöf Margrét Gunnarsdóttir was born in N. Þingeyjarsýsla on June 2, 1858 and died in Gimli on October 10, 1945. She took the name Margret Anderson in the west.
Spouse: 1) Kolbeinn Einarsson d. in New Iceland in 1899 2) July 10, 1902 Árni Björnsson (Anderson) b. 1861 in N. Þingeyjarsýsla, d. July 8, 1920 in Riverton.
Children: With Kolbein: 1. Friðrik Gunnar b. 1889 2. Friðrika Guðrún b. December 20, 1898. With Jón Sigurðsson: 1. Sigurgeir b. about 1880.
Margrét and Kolbeinn came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1893 and settled in the Árnes Settlement in New Iceland. She moved with her second husband, Arni, to Riverton in 1914 and lived there until 1929. She lived with her son Frederick Gunnar in Selkirk before moving to Gimli.