Bjarni Bjarnason

ID: 1374
Date of birth : 1821
Place of birth : V. Skaftafellssýsla
Date of death : 1900

Bjarni Bjarnason was born in W. Skaftafellssýsla on January 24, 1821. He died on December 1, 1900 in Spanish Fork.

Spouse: Katrín Jónsdóttir b. July 21, 1824, d. November 21, 1908.

Children: 1. Bjarni b. July 17, 1844 2. Sæmundur b. August 21, 1852 3. Kristín b. September 17, 1850. They also had a foster daughter, Sesselja, b. February 26, 1868.

Bjarni, Sæmundur and Sesselja emigrated west to Utah in 1886 and settled in Spanish Fork. The son Bjarni had emigrated with his wife, Guðríður Þorsteinsdóttir, in 1880. Katrín did not emigrate and died in Iceland on November 21, 1908.