ID: 8792
Date of birth : 1837
Place of birth : Eyjafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1922
Jóhann Bjarnason and Lilja Guðrún Daníelsdóttir
Jóhannes Bjarnason was born in 1837 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla. He died on November 14, 1922 in Saskatchewan.
Spouse: 1860 Lilja G Daníelsdóttir b. 1839 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla, d. on May 11, 1906.
Children: 1. Guðrún Rósa b. 1862 2. Halldóra b. 1864 3. Þórunn b. 1868 4. Aðalbjörg b. 1873 5. Pálmi b. 1882.
They came to Manitoba and began farming in New Iceland in 1883. After more than a year, they moved to Winnipeg, where they lived for almost two years. Then they moved to the Þinvalla settlement in Saskachewan where they lived for six years. From there the road lay to the Lakes settlement (Vatnabyggð). Their daughter Aðalbjörg came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba with Páll Gunnarsson and his wife in 1878.