Magnea Pétursdóttir

ID: 9969
Date of birth : 1846
Place of birth : Gullbringusýsla
Date of death : 1920

Guðlaug Magnea Ingibjörg Pétursdóttir was born on January 21, 1846 in Reykjavík. She died on February 3, 1920.

Spouse: Hermann Hjálmarsson b. in S. Múlasýsla on December 20, 1847, d. February 5, 1935.

Children: 1. Kirstín b. February 5, 1877 2. Pétur b. 1879 3. Hjálmar b. 1879 4. María b. 1881 5. Þórhallur b. 1883 6. Halldóra b. 1886 7. Theódóra.

They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1890 and settled in the Garðar Settlement in N. Dakota. Hermann worked as a salesman in the village of Edinburg and later moved to Winnipeg, where he worked for the weekly Lögberg. They spent their summers on land they owned in the Víðir Settlement.