Þorbjörg Sveinsdóttir was born on December 10, 1831 in N. Múlasýsla. She died on April 25, 1911.
Spouse: October 18, 1864 Þorkell Bessason b. in Fellum in N. Múlasýsla on June 8, 1840.
Children: 1. Sveinn b. 1870, d. 1876 2. Jón b. 1872, d. 1876 3. Kristrún b. 1873 4. Gunnlaugur b. 1875, d. 1876 5. Gunnar b. 1876. Two other sons died in Iceland. Gunnar is mentioned in Vesturfaraskrá, but additional information is missing.
They came west in 1876 to New Iceland and lived in Gimli. Traveling with them was Kristín Jóhannesdóttir, Þorkell’s mother. They lost sons Svein, Jón, and Gunnlaug to smallpox.
They took land in the Hnausa Settlement and named it Reykhóla. They moved to N. Dakota in 1881 and settled in the Akra Settlement. They lived there for two years, but then moved next to land south of Cavalier where they lived for 25 years. Þorkell moved to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1908 and lived in Wynyard.