ID: 14407
Date of birth : 1869
Place of birth : S. Múlasýsla
Katrín Árnadóttir was born on July 17, 1869 in S. Múlasýsla.
Spouse: Alphonse Lessard b. in Canada on July 12, 1866.
Children: 1. Flora b. 1891 2. Arthur b. 1893 3. Edward b. 1895 4. Margrét b. 1897 5. Mary b. 1903.
Katrín emigrated west to Manitoba in 1882 with her widowed mother, Þórunn Björnsdóttir, and they settled in Selkirk. There she met her husband and they farmed there until the turn of the century. In the 1906 census, they are in the district of Provencher. From there they headed south to the United States, and in 1930 they lived with their son Arthur in Waukegan, Illinois.