Ingveldur (Inga) Benjamínsdóttir 1898 Photo: PaB
Ingveldur Guðný Benjamínsdóttir was born in Dalasýsla on April 24, 1881. She died in Manitoba on December 25, 1961.
Spouse: October 24, 1906 Jón Sigurður Einarsson b. December 15, 1880 in Barðastrandarsýsla. He took the last name Gillies in the west.
Children: 1. Jón Benjamin 2. Eyþór Franklín 3. Jón Norman 4. Gladys Steinunn 5. Emil Ágúst.
Ingveldur came west to Winnipeg with her parents, Benjamín Jónsson and Steinunn Jónsdóttir, in 1883 and the family settled in Árnes. Ingveldur attended a business college in Winnipeg and learned how to sew clothes. Jón Sigurður came west to Winnipeg with his father, Einar Gíslason, in 1887, while his mother, Þórkildur Hafliðadóttir, emigrated a year later. Jón Sigurður ran a grocery store in Winnipeg.