ID: 6844
Date of birth : 1839
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Sveinbjörn Jóhannesson was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1839.
Spouse: Þorbjörg Eiríksdóttir b. 1831.
Children: 1. Sigurlaug b. 1869 2. María b. 1872 3. Guðmundur b. 1873 4. Sveinn. Þorbjörg also had Guðrún Símonardóttir, b. 1856, and Kristjana Símonardóttir, b. 1861, with her first husband.
They emigrated west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1876 and took land northeast of Mountain, North Dakota in the Thingvalla Settlement in 1880.