ID: 12047
Date of birth : 1879
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1954
Runólfur Sigbjörnsson was born in N. Múlasýsla in 1879. He died in Manitoba in 1954. He took the name R. S. Benson in Manitoba.
Spouse: Björgdís Jónsdóttir b. 1884 in Skagafjarðarsýsla, d. 1954 in Selkirk, Manitoba.
Children: Information missing.
Runólfur came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1893 with his parents, Sigbjörn Ásbjörnsson and Stefanía Magnúsdóttir. They settled in Selkirk and Runólfur lived their the rest of his life. Björgdís was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1884 and came to the United States in 1887 with her parents, Jón Jónsson and Ingibjörg Oddný Frímannsdóttir. They first lived in New Jersey but moved to Winnipeg in 1893.