ID: 5774
Date of birth : 1831
Place of birth : Húnavatnssýsla
Date of death : 1897
Bjarni Snæbjörnsson was born on December 16, 1831 in Húnavatnssýsla. He died in Muskoka, Ontario on March 27, 1897.
Unmarried and childless.
He came west to Ontario, Canada in 1873 and went with several others to the Muskoka Settlement. Most of them went west to Manitoba, but Bjarni bought land and named it Bjarnastaður. Joining him in 1878 was María Magnúsdóttir from Eyjafjordur and her two children, Jakob and Arnbjörg.