ID: 9742
Date of birth : 1865
Place of birth : S. Þingeyjarsýsla
Date of death : 1933
Photo: Private Collection
Sigríður Dínusdóttir was born in S. Þingeyjarsýsla on July 12, 1865. She died in N. Dakota on February 12, 1933. She took the name Clara Pleasance in the west.
Spouse: July 30, 1883 William Pleasance b. in England on August 12, 1855, d. March 8, 1943.
Children: 1. Fredrick 2. Frank 3. James b. 1893, d. April 29, 1909 4. Christine b. 1897, d. 1925.
Sigríður came west in 1879 with her parents, Dínus Jónsson and Kristjana Andrésdóttir, and siblings. They lived in Winnipeg the first year where Sigríður found work. She lived in Winnipeg the next year, while her parents moved to Akra, N. Dakota. Sigríður moved there in 1882. William lived there, having settled on his own land in 1880.