ID: 18936
Date of birth : 1866
Place of birth : Gullbringusýsla
Ólafur Gunnarsson was born on January 6, 1866 in Gullbringusýsla.
Spouse: 1904 Kristín Magnúsdóttir b. 1861 in Árnessýsla.
Ólafur came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1898 and went first to N. Dakota. He worked for farmers for several years, before taking his own land in the Þingvalla Settlement in Saskatchewan in 1904. Kristín came west with her parents, Magnús Einarsson and Ragnhildur Magnúsdóttir, and elder sister in 1887.