Björg Björnsdóttir

ID: 11350
Date of birth : 1862
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1910

Björg Björnsdóttir was born on September 16, 1862 in N. Múlasýsla. She died in Winnipeg on October 21, 1910.

Spouse: 1888 Björn Ágústsson born in Húnavatnssýsla May 24, 1858. He died on October 21, 1911 in Winnipeg. He took the last name Blöndal in the west.

Children: 1. Ágúst b. July 8, 1889 in Edinburg, N. Dakota, d. January 6, 1948 2. Jóhanna b. 1894 3. Björn b. 1896 4. Margrét b. 1902. She was adopted.

Björg came west to N. Dakota in 1887 traveling with her sister, Margrét, and her husband, Halldór Hjálmarsson. Björn learned carpentry in Copenhagen and came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba with his mother, Jóhanna Jónsdóttir, and his brother Jón. He soon found work in the city, but in 1888 he moved south to the Thingvalla Settlement in N. Dakota and  lived there six years. From there, he moved west to the Pacific Ocean, but returned to Winnipeg in 1896 where the family lived from then on.