ID: 12883
Date of birth : 1826
Place of birth : S. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1884
Ólafía Ólafsdóttir was born in S. Múlasýsla in 1826. She died in N. Dakota on December 6, 1884.
Spouse: Björn Pétursson b. in S. Múlasýsla on August 2, 1826, d. in Winnipeg on September 25, 1893.
Children: 1. Anna b. 1851 2. Páll b. 1852 3. Þórunn b. 1853 4. Sigrún b. 1860 5. Halldóra b. July 1, 1865 d. October 10, 1943 6. Ólafur b. 1869 7. Sveinn b. 1855 was their half-brother.
Björn and Ólafía emigrated west in 1876 to Winnipeg, Manitoba and from there to New Iceland. They took land at Sandy Bar near the Icelandic River. They moved from there in 1879 to N. Dakota and lived in the Fjalla Settlement.