Margrét Eyjólfsdóttir

ID: 1167
Date of birth : 1852
Place of birth : Árnessýsla
Date of death : 1927

Margrét Eyjólfsdóttir was born on July 12, 1852 in Árnessýsla. She died in 1927 in N. Dakota.

Spouse: 1877 Halldór Halldórsson born January 25, 1849 in Árnessýsla, d. January 26, 1924. He took the last name Ármann in the west.

Children: 1. Halldór Eyjólfur b. April 7, 1884 2. Hannes b. June 4, 1886 3. Þorgeir Árni b. December 28, 1887 4. Kristinn Pálmi b. April 14, 1889 5. Valgerður Kristín b. December 10, 1891.

Halldór and Margrét came west in 1878 to Canada and went to Markland, Nova Scotia. With them was Sesselja Grímsdóttir, and the three were all living at Stóra Háls in Þingvallahreppur. Einar Einarsson from Hvoll in Dyrhólahreppur was with them. Halldór and Margrét moved to Winnipeg in 1882 and lived there for two years, but then settled in the Garðar Settlement in N. Dakota.