ID: 1188
Date of birth : 1859
Place of birth : Árnessýsla
Valgerður Eiríksdóttir was born in Árnessýsla in 1859.
Spouse: 1889 Bernharður Jónsson b. in Mosfellssveit in Kjósarsýsla in 1857. He took the name Bernhard Johnson in the west. He died in Saskatchewan in 1910.
Bernharð came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1883 and moved on to the Þingvalla settlement in Saskatchewan where he was among the first homesteaders. Valgerður came west with Eiríkur Ingimundarson and his family in 1887, as she was their housekeeper. Bernharður and Valgerður moved to the Lakes settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1896 and were among the first homesteaders near Foam Lake.