ID: 13884
Date of birth : 1863
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1948
Ásmundur Björnsson: Born in 1863 in N. Múlasýsla. He died in Winnipeg on May 21, 1948. He took the last name Austmann in the west.
Spouse: 1894 Helga Sigurðardóttir b. N. Múlasýsla in 1869, d. May 14, 1956.
Children: 1. Jóna Marín Sigurbjörg b. January 20, 1895 2. Halldór b. August 3, 1896 3. Björgvin Lorenz b. January 28, 1899 4. Jóhannes b. December 3, 1900 5. Sigurjón b. February 6, 1903 6. Þóranna Guðbjörg b. 1904 7. Páll b. January 23, 1908.
Ásmundur emigrated west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1892, but Helga had emigrated with her parents, Sigurður Björnsson and Guðfinna Oddsdóttir, in 1883. She worked as a maid for Ásmundur and his father, Björn Geirmundsson in the Geysir Settlement.