ID: 5403
Date of birth : 1862
Place of birth : Húnavatnssýsla
Date of death : 1896
Church cemetery in the Þingvalla Settlement in Saskatchewan. Kristín Sveinsdóttir lies here. Photo: Private collection.
Kristín Sveinsdóttir was born in Húnavatnssýsla in 1862. She died in Saskatchewan in 1896.
Spouse: Ásgeir Jónsson b. in Húnavatnssýsla on November 4, 1856.
Children: 1. Valdimar b. 1887. They had four other children; information missing.
They came west in 1887 and settled in Winnipeg where Ásgeir worked in a wheat mill for the Hudson´s Bay Company until 1891. They moved west to Churchbridge, Saskatchewan.