ID: 5187
Date of birth : 1885
Place of birth : Dalasýsla
Date of death : 1928
Bjarni Davíðsson was born in Dalasýsla on September 18, 1855. He died in Saskatchewan on March 9, 1928. He took the last name Westmann in Canada.
Spouse: 1889 Ingibjörg Guðmundsdóttir b. in Árnessýsla in 1851, d. in Winnipeg August 9, 1944.
Children: Davíð Albert
Bjarni came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1882 and worked here and there in the city or its immediate vicinity. He founded a store in Shellmouth, in western Manitoba in partnership with Helgi Jónsson. They moved this store to Langenburg, Saskatchewan. A year later, Bjarni moved the store a final time to Churchbridge. Helgi died in November 1887 and Bjarni then took care of the store together with Helgi’s widow, Ingibjörg Guðmundsdóttir, whom Bjarni married in the autumn of 1889.