Guðfinna Árnadóttir

ID: 11493
Date of birth : 1880
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1969

Guðfinna Árnadóttir was born in N. Múlasýsla in 1880. She died on July 19, 1969 in Minnesota. She took the name Magnea (Maggie) Gudfinna Magnuson in the west.

Spouse:  Þorvaldur Guðmundsson b. in Vopnafjörður in N. Múlasýsla on May 18, 1868, d. November 15, 1832 in Minnesota. (He took the name Thor or Thomas Gudmundsson in the west).

Children: 1. Þorsteinn (Thorsteinn) Ingimundur b. 1895; d. 1908 2. Sigurbjörg (Bertha) b. 1897 3. Pétur Arnór b. 1899; d. 1900 4. Margrét Cecelia b. 1901 5. Guðrún b. 1902; d. 1904 6. Jón (John) b. 1903 7. Pétur Arnór b. 1905 8. Guðrún Kristín (Christine Gertrude) b. 1907  9. Theodore Miller b. 1910  10. Marvin Steindór Gudmundson b. 1913; d. 1937

Þorvaldur came west in 1880 at age 11 with Eyjólfur Björnsson and his family. They first lived in Nova Scotia, but soon moved west to the Lincoln County Settlement in Minnesota. Guðfinna came west with her parents, Árni Magnússon and Sigurbjörg Árnadóttir, in 1889.