Ólafur Guðmundsson Photo: RbQ
Ólafur Guðmundsson was born on November 14, 1865 in Skagafjarðarsýsla. He died on June 1, 1921. He took the last name Peterson in the west.
Spouse: 1900 Rósa Jónasdóttir b. May 23, 1882 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla.
Children: 1. Bogi b. October 15, 1901 2. Sigríður b. August 30, 1903 3. Friðrik b. November 16, 1905 4. Ólöf b. January 20, 1907 5. Lilja b. September 10, 1908, d. July 14, 1944 6. Helen b. November 26, 1910 7. Pétur b. March 13, 1913 8. Aðalheiður Grace b. March 10, 1915 9. Helgi Lincoln b. May 2, 1921. They lost a son, Helgi, as a newborn.
Ólafur came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba with his parents and siblings in 1876. They arrived in Winnipeg in 1880 and three years later, the family moved to N. Dakota and lived in the Víkur Settlement. Ólafur and Rósa moved to Alberta at the turn of the century and lived for the next ten years in Red Deer and Markerville. They moved in 1910 to Vatnabyggð (Lakes Settlement) in Saskatchewan and settled in Wynyard. Rósa came west with her mother, Sigríður Árnadóttir, in 1882. They moved south to the Garðar Settlement in N. Dakota where Sigríður’s sister-in-law, Rósa Kristjánsdóttir, lived with her husband, Jón Þórðarson. There, Sigríður married Ásgeir Guðnason who had come west in 1883.