ID: 19098
Date of birth : 1884
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1954
Björgdís Jónsdóttir was born in 1884 in Skagafjarðarsýsla. She died in 1954 in Selkirk, Manitoba.
Spouse: Runólfur Sigbjörnsson b. in N. Múlasýsla in 1879, d. in Manitoba in 1954. He took the name R. S. Benson in Manitoba.
Children: Information missing.
Runólfur came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1893 with his parents, Sigbjörn Ásbjörnsson and Stefanía Magnúsdóttir. They lived in Selkirk and Runólfur lived the rest of his life there. 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.