ID: 14406
Single parent
Date of birth : 1831
Place of birth : S. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1908
Þórunn Björnsdóttir was born in S. Múlasýsla in 1831. She died in 1908 in Saskatchewan.
Spouse: Árni Gíslason d. in Iceland.
Children, some came west: 1. Gísli b. 1855 2. Sigurður b. 1863, d. 1902 3. Þórður b. 1867, d. 1883 in N. Dakota 4. Katrín b. 1869.
Þórunn came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba with her children Sigurður, Þórður, and Katrín in 1882. They all moved to N. Dakota where they lived for years. About 1890, Þórunn moved with Sigurður to Selkirk, Manitoba. In 1908, she moved west to Saskatchewan with her son Gísli and his family, but the journey proved to be too much for her.