Rósa Davíðsdóttir

ID: 8839
Date of birth : 1866
Place of birth : Eyjafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1948

Rósa Davíðsdóttir was born on November 9, 1866 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla. Died in 1948.

Spouse: 1902 Lárus Bjarni Rafnsson b. at Akranes in Borgarfjarðarsýsla on February 3, 1879. He took the last name Nordal in the west.

Children: 1. Anna Karólína b. September 6, 1902.

Rósa came west to Manitoba in 1893. Lárus came west across the sea to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1900 where he spent the next four years building houses. They moved to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1905 and took land near Leslie. They farmed there for 32 years, but in 1937 they moved to Gimli, Manitoba.