Páll Magnússon

ID: 8496
Date of birth : 1864
Place of birth : Eyjafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1948

Páll Magnússon Photo: VÍÆ IV

Páll Magnússon was born in Eyjafjarðarsýsla on December 21, 1864. He died in Manitoba on September 2, 1948. He took the name Paul Magnuson in the west.

Spouse: Guðný Friðbjarnardóttir b. April 15, 1864 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla, d. in Saskatchewan on September 8, 1932.

Children: 1. Magnús Valdimar b. April 26, 1889 2. Friðbjörn b. 1891 3. Pétur b. 1893 4. Aðalsteinn b. 1896 5. Svava b. 1898 6. Adam b. 1900

They emigrated to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1901 but homesteaded near Leslie in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1904.