ID: 2265
Single parent
Date of birth : 1841
Place of birth : Borgarfjarðarsýsla
Jóreiður Grímsdóttir was born in Borgarfjarðarsýsla in 1841.
Widowed. Her husband was Guðmundur Guðmundsson from Skáney in Reykholtsdal, d. in Iceland.
Children: 1. Guðmundur b. 1866 2. Guðrún b. 1869 3. Guðlaug b. 1873 4. Gunnhildur b. 1876 5. Vigdís b. 1879 6. Guðrún b. 1882.
Jóreiður and her children came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1885 and went on to N. Dakota. Her brother Steinólfur had arrived there in 1882 and had taken land in the Garðar Settlement.