ID: 17256
Date of birth : 1869
Place of birth : Húnavatnssýsla
Date of death : 1936
Þórunn María Magnúsdóttir was born on February 1, 1869 in Húnavatnssýsla. She died in Selkirk on November 30, 1936.
Spouse: Sigurður Erlendsson b. at Höskuldsstaðir in S. Þingeyjarsýsla on January 2, 1831. He died on March 31, 1919 in New Iceland.
Children: 1. Sigurður b. October 23, 1901 2. Stefán b. April 11, 1903. 3. Rúna. Sigurður had these children with his first wife Guðrún Eiríksdóttir: 1. Jakobína b. 1857 2. Stefán b. May 28, 1864 3. Jóhannes b. 1869 4. Kristjana b. 1870 5. Sigfús b. 1874.
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1876 and settled in New Iceland. They lived in Mikley on land named Skógar. Þórunn was not mentally stable, and after 1909, spent the next 30 years at the mental asylum in Selkirk.