ID: 19321
Date of birth : 1878
Place of birth : Árnessýsla
Date of death : 1957
Páll Snorrason was born in Árnessýsla on June 13, 1878. He died in Minneapolis on January 23, 1957. He took the name Paul Magdal in the west.
Spouse: Ragnheiður Steinunn Jóhannesdóttir b. September 17, 1887 in N. Dakota, d. June 5, 1935 in Minneapolis.
Children: 1. Jóhannes Snorri b. January 15, 1923 in Winnipeg 2. Gertrude Gróa b. 1924 3. Sarah b. November 7, 1925 4. Paul Norman b. June 1, 1927.
Páll must have come west in 1915, probably to Winnipeg because they lived there when their first child was born. Ragnheiður’s parents, Jóhannes Jóhannsson and Guðrún Halldórsdóttir, came west in 1883. Páll was a carpenter and registered as such in Minneapolis in 1930.