Tómas Sigurðsson

ID: 7854
Date of birth : 1865
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla

Tómas Sigurðsson: Born in 1865 in Skagafjarðarsýsla.

Spouse: 1900 María Halldórsdóttir born in the Fljóts Settlement on March 24, 1880, d. in Steep Rock on May 6, 1940.

Children: 1. Ethel Violet b. June 13, 1898 2. Leó Mitchell b. April 2, 1900 3. Jóhann Tístran b. September 16, 1902 4. Thelma b. June 2, 1905 5. Ingibjörg b. December 29, 1906 6. Marin Ida b. July 30, 1908 7. Thomas Gunnar b. October 16, 1910 8. Allan b. November 29, 1911 9. Raymond Marvin b. 1917.

Tómas emigrated west with his mother Kristín Jónatansdóttir and siblings in 1876. Kristín was the widow of Tryggvi Ingimundarson. They first settled in Mikley and then moved to Mountain, N. Dakota. Tómas and María bought land in the Geysir Settlement in 1900 and named their land Svaðastaður. They lived there until 1933 and then moved to Steep Rock, Manitoba.