ID: 9539
Date of birth : 1882
Place of birth : S. Þingeyjarsýsla
Date of death : 1956
Hólmfríður Jakobína Þorláksdóttir was born on June 17, 1882 in S. Þingeyjarsýsla. She died in Winnipeg on October 22, 1956.
Unmarried and childless.
She came west across the sea in 1893 with her parents, Þorlákur Jónasson and Kristrún Pétursdóttir. She lived with them in the Argyle Settlement and moved with them west to Dafoe in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan. She later moved to Winnipeg. She worked as a housekeeper and took whatever work she could find.