Sigurbjörg Símonardóttir

ID: 3923
Date of birth : 1852
Place of birth : Ísafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1945

Sigurbjörg Símonardóttir was born in Ísafjarðarsýsla on April 18, 1853. She died on October 27, 1945 in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan.

Spouse: Björn Jóhannsson b. November 21, 1847 in Snæfellsnessýsla, d. in Elfros, Saskatchewan on May 19, 1922.

Children: 1. Ágúst b. 1887 2. Jóhanna 3. Sigurður 4. Gísli 5. Jónas 6. Helgi 7. Davíð.

They came west in 1887 and lived a number of years in Winnipeg, then in the Garðar Settlement in N. Dakota. They took land in the Víðir-Sandy Hills Settlement in 1911. They made their last move to their son Davíð’s home in Elfros, Saskatchewan in 1922.