ID: 19340
Born west
Jakob Friðriksson was born in the west. He is registered as Jakob F. Bjarnason in the west.
Spouse: Vilborg Gísladóttir
Children: 1. Hafsteinn. Foster children 2. Jóhanna Margrét 3. Þórhallur
Jakob was the son of Friðrik Bjarnason and Mildfríður Árnadóttir who came west to 1874 to Ontario, Canada. They settled in New Iceland in 1875 and moved from there in 1881 to N. Dakota. Later, in 1906, they took land in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in the Wynyard community. Jakob had settled in the same location a year earlier.